The depressed area measured five by six
inches. In 1887 the man left the hospital in Buffalo with the
paralysis improved, but his mental equilibrium could be easily
disturbed. He became hysteric and sobbed when scolded.
Buchanan mentions the history of a case in a woman of twenty-one,
who, while working in a mill, was struck by a bolt. Her skull was
fractured and driven into the brain comminuted. Hanging from the
wound was a bit of brain-substance, the size of a finger,
composed of convolution as well as white matter. The wound
healed, there was no hernia, and at the time of report the girl
was conscious of no disturbance, not even a headache. There was
nothing indicative of the reception of the injury except a scar
near the edge of the hair on the upper part of the right side of
the forehead. Steele, in a school-boy of eight, mentions a case
of very severe injury to the bones of the face and head, with
escape of cerebral substance, and recovery. The injury was caused
by falling into machinery.
There was a seaman aboard of the U.S.S. "Constellation," who fell
through a hatchway from the masthead, landing on the vertex of
the head. There was copious bleeding from the ears, 50 to 60
fluid-ounces of blood oozing in a few hours, mingled with small
fragments of brain-tissue.
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