Skin-
grafting was tried in this case but with no result, and the woman
afterward lost an eye by exposure, from retraction of the eyelid.
In some cases extensive wounds of the scalp heal without
artificial aid by simply cicatrizing over. Gross mentions such a
case in a young lady, who, in 1869, lost her scalp in a factory.
There is reported an account of a conductor on the Union Pacific
Railroad, who, near Cheyenne, in 1869, was scalped by Sioux
Indians. He suffered an elliptic wound, ten by eight cm., a
portion of the outer table of the cranium being removed, yet the
wound healed over.
Cerebral Injuries.--The recent advances in brain-surgery have, in
a measure, diminished the interest and wonder of some of the
older instances of major injuries of the cerebral contents with
unimportant after-results, and in reviewing the older cases we
must remember that the recoveries were made under the most
unfavorable conditions, and without the slightest knowledge of
all important asepsis and antisepsis.
Penetration or even complete transfixion of the brain is not
always attended with serious symptoms. Dubrisay is accredited
with the description of a man of forty-four, who, with suicidal
intent, drove a dagger ten cm.
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