Bontius asserts
that the patient was perfectly cured by another surgeon and
himself. Galen mentions an injury to a youth in Smyrna, in whom
the brain was so seriously wounded that the anterior ventricles
were opened; and vet the patient recovered. Glandorp mentions a
case of fracture of the skull out of which his father took large
portions of brain and some fragments of bone. He adds that the
man was afterward paralyzed an the opposite side and became
singularly irritable. In his "Chirurgical Observations," Job van
Meek'ren tells the story of a Russian nobleman who lost part of
his skull, and a dog's skull was supplied in its place. The
bigoted divines of the country excommunicated the man, and would
not annul his sentence until he submitted to have the bit of
foreign bone removed.
Mendenhall reports the history of an injury to a laborer nineteen
years old. While sitting on a log a few feet from a comrade who
was chopping wood, the axe glanced and, slipping from the
woodman's grasp, struck him just above the ear, burying the "bit"
of the axe in his skull. Two hours afterward he was seen almost
pulseless, and his clothing drenched with blood which was still
oozing from the wound with mixed brain-substance and fragments of
bone.
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