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Male. Female.
Anterior fossa, . . . . . . . . . . . 16 5
Middle fossa, . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 6
Posterior fossa,. . . . . . . . . . . 10 1
Middle and anterior fossae, . . . . . 15 5
Middle and posterior fossae,. . . . . 4 1
Anterior, middle, and posterior fossae,1 0
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96 18 Total, 114.
In a paper on nonmortal fractures of the base of the skull,
Lidell gives an account of 135 cases. MacCormac reports a case of
a boy of nine who was run over by a carriage drawn by a pair of
horses. He suffered fracture of the base of the skull, of the
bones of the face, and of the left ulna, and although suppuration
at the points of fracture ensued, followed by an optic neuritis,
an ultimate recovery was effected. Ball, an Irish surgeon, has
collected several instances in which the base of the skull has
been driven in and the condyle of the jaw impacted in the opening
by force transmitted through the lower maxilla.
The tolerance of foreign bodies in the brain is most marvelous.
In the ancient chronicles of Koenigsberg there is recorded the
history of a man who for fourteen years carried in his head a
piece of iron as large as his finger.
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