Volume 1

The anatomy of the human body.

  • Bell, John, 1763-1820.
Date:
1797
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Credit: The anatomy of the human body. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thought of, for preventing the like miflake. It may be uleful to remember that the future has its ferrse or indentations; is firmly covered by the pericranium;, is dole, and does not bleed : but that a fuTure, or frac- ture of the fkull, runs in one direct line j is larger and broader at the place of the injury; grows fmullcr, as you recede from that, till it vanifhes by its imallneis; and that it always bleeds. Indeed the older furgeon-, obferving this, poured ink upon the fufpected part, which, if the fkull was hurt, funk into the nifure, and made it black and vifible -, but left the future un- touched. They alfo directed to make the patient take a wire betwixt his teeth, which being ftruck, like the firing of an inftrument, he would feel the twang pro- duce a painful and peculiar fenfation in the fractured part of the head. But after all thefe obfervations, in place of any true and certain marks, we find a number of accidents which may lead us into a miflake. Sutures cannot be dih.inguilh.ed by their ferrse or teeth, for the temporal futures want this common character, and rather refemble capillary fractures of thefeull*; nor even by their places, for we know that there are often infulated bones (olfa Wormiana) furrounded with peculiar joinings, which fo derange the courfe of Che-common futures, that the joinings maybe mi (taken for fractures of the Hcull, and the otia Wor- miana for broken parts. Sometimes the 1'q.uamous fu- ture is double, with a large arch of bone intercepted betwixt the true and the faife future ; or the fagittal future, descending beyond its ufual extent, and quite to the * Viz. Fra&ures as fmall as a,bair, thence named capillary.