It was also stated that the
retention of memory was remarkable, and, up to within two weeks
of his death, the patient was able to memorize poems. The amount
of involvement discovered postmortem in cases similar to the
preceding is astonishing. At a recent pathologic display in
London several remarkable specimens were shown.
Extensive Fractures of the Skull. Jennings mentions an instance
of extensive fracture of the skull, 14 pieces of the cranium
being found. The patient lived five weeks and two days after the
injury, the immediate cause of death being edema of the lungs.
His language was incoherent and full of oaths. Belloste, in his
"Hospital Surgeon," states that he had under has care a most
dreadful case of a girl of eleven or twelve years, who received
18 or 19 cutlass wounds of the head, each so violent as to chip
out pieces of bone; but, notwithstanding her severe injuries, she
made recovery. At the Emergency Hospital in Washington, D.C.,
there was received a negress with at least six gaping wounds of
the head, in some cases denuding the periosteum and cutting the
cranium. During a debauch the night before she had been engaged
in a quarrel with a negro with whom she lived, and was struck by
him several times on the head with an axe.
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