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Figures 192 and 193 show the outline and probable course of the
spout.
Beaumont reports the history of an injury in a man of forty-five,
who, standing but 12 yards away, was struck in the orbit by a
rocket, which penetrated through the spheroidal fissure into the
middle and posterior lobes of the left hemisphere. He did not
fall at the time he was struck, and fifteen minutes after the
stick was removed he arose without help and walked away.
Apparently no extensive cerebral lesion had been caused, and the
man suffered no subsequent cerebral symptoms except, three years
afterward, impairment of memory.
There is an account given by Chelius of an extraordinary wound
caused by a ramrod. The rod was accidentally discharged while
being employed in loading, and struck a person a few paces away.
It entered the head near the root of the zygomatic arch, about a
finger's breadth from the outer corner of the right eye, passed
through the head, emerging at the posterior superior angle of the
parietal bone, a finger's breadth from the sagittal suture, and
about the same distance above the superior angle of the occipital
bone. The wounded man attempted to pull the ramrod out, but all
his efforts were ineffectual.
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