There is an account of a private soldier, aged twenty-seven, who
suffered a gunshot wound of the skull, causing compound fracture
of the cranium, and who also received compound fractures of both
bones of the leg. He did not present himself for treatment until
ten days later. At this time the head- injury caused him no
inconvenience, but it was necessary to amputate the leg and
remove the necrosed bones from the cranial wounds; the patient
recovered.
Recovery After Injuries by Machinery, with Multiple Fractures,
etc.--Persons accidentally caught in some portions of powerful
machinery usually suffer several major injuries, any one of which
might have been fatal, yet there are marvelous instances of
recovery after wounds of this nature. Phares records the case of
a boy of nine who, while playing in the saw-gate of a
cotton-press, was struck by the lever in revolution, the blow
fracturing both bones of the leg about the middle. At the second
revolution his shoulder was crushed; the third passed over him,
and the fourth, with maximum momentum struck his head, carrying
away a large part of the integument, including one eyebrow,
portions of the skull, membranes, and brain-substance. A piece of
cranial bone was found sticking in the lever, and there were
stains of brain on all the 24 posts around the circumference of
the hole.
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