The boy recovered. The ball
entered one inch above and in front of the right ear and made its
exit through the lambdoidal suture posteriorly.
Hall of Denver, Col., in an interesting study of gunshot wounds
of the brain, writes as follows:--
"It is in regard to injuries involving the brain that the
question of the production of immediate unconsciousness assumes
the greatest interest. We may state broadly that if the medulla
or the great centers at the base of the brain are wounded by a
bullet, instant unconsciousness must result; with any other
wounds involving the brain-substance it will, with very great
probability, result. But there is a very broad area of
uncertainty. Many instances have been recorded in which the
entrance of a small bullet into the anterior part of the brain
has not prevented the firing of a second shot on the part of the
suicide. Personally, I have not observed such a case, however.
But, aside from the injuries by the smallest missiles in the
anterior parts of the brain, we may speak with almost absolute
certainty with regard to the production of unconsciousness, for
the jar to the brain from the blow of the bullet upon the skull
would produce such a result even if the damage to the brain were
not sufficient to do so.
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