As was most natural such a wonderful case of cerebral injury
attracted much notice. Not only was the case remarkable in the
apparent innocuous loss of cerebral substance, but in the
singular chance which exempted the brain from either concussion
or compression, and subsequent inflammation. Professor Bigelow
examined the patient in January, 1850, and made a most excellent
report of the case, and it is due to his efforts that the case
attained world-wide notoriety. Bigelow found the patient quite
recovered in his faculties of body and mind, except that he had
lost the sight of the injured eye. He exhibited a linear cicatrix
one inch long near the angle of the ramus of the left lower jaw.
His left eyelid was involuntarily closed and he had no power to
overcome his ptosis. Upon the head, well covered by the hair, was
a large unequal depression and elevation. In order to ascertain
how far it might be possible for a bar of the size causing the
injury to traverse the skull in the track assigned to it, Bigelow
procured a common skull in which the zygomatic arches were barely
visible from above, and having entered a drill near the left
angle of the inferior maxilla, he passed it obliquely upward to
the median line of the cranium just in front of the junction of
the sagittal and coronal sutures.
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