Wilson speaks of a child who
fell on an upright copper paper-file, which penetrated the right
side of the occipital bone, below the external orifice of the
ear, and entered the brain for more than three inches; and yet
the child made a speedy recovery.
Baron Larrey knew of a man whose head was completely transfixed
by a ramrod, which extended from the middle of the forehead to
the left side of the nape of the neck; despite this serious
injury the man lived two days.
Jewett records the case of an Irish drayman who, without
treatment, worked for forty-seven days after receiving a
penetrating wound of the skull 1/4 inch in diameter and four
inches deep. Recovery ensued in spite of the delay in treatment.
Gunshot Injuries.--Swain mentions a patient who stood before a
looking glass, and, turning his head far around to the left,
fired a pistol shot into his brain behind the right ear. The
bullet passed into his mouth, and he spat it out. Some bleeding
occurred from both the internal and external wounds; the man soon
began to suffer with a troublesome cough, with bloody
expectoration; his tongue was coated and drawn to the right; he
became slightly deaf in his right ear and dragged his left leg in
walking.
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