Observations on the nature and consequences of those injuries to which the head is liable from external violence : To which are added, Some few general remarks on fractures and dislocations / by Percivall Pott.

  • Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788.
Date:
1768
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Credit: Observations on the nature and consequences of those injuries to which the head is liable from external violence : To which are added, Some few general remarks on fractures and dislocations / by Percivall Pott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vial, may fometimes prove of the greateft confequence. I will not wafte the reader’s time, by en¬ tering into a detail of the method of treat¬ ing common incifed wounds; but proceed immediately to thofe which, (tho’ the mif- chief is originally confined to the mere fcalp,) yet are frequently very terrible to behold; are often attended with alarming fymptoms, and fometimes with danger. Thefe are what are called lacerated wounds ; and, thofe made by pundure. The former may be reduced to two kinds* (viz.) thofe in which the fcalp, tho’ torn, or unequally divided, {till keeps its natural lituation, and is not ftript or feparated from the cranium, to any confiderable diftance, beyond the breadth of the wound : and thofe, in which it is confiderably detached, from the parts it ought to cover. The firft of thefe, if Ample, and not combined with the iymptoms, or appear¬ ances of any other mifchief, do not require any particular, or different treatment, from what the fame kind of wounds require in all other parts : but the latter, (thofe in which the fcalp is feparated, and detached from the parts it ought to cover,) are not B 2 only.