Possibly from 1 1/2 to two ounces of cerebral substance
were lost. A physician was called, but thinking the case hopeless
he declined to offer surgical interference. Undaunted, the father
of the injured lad straightened the leg, adjusted the various
fractures, and administered calomel and salts. The boy
progressively recovered, and in a few weeks his shoulder and legs
were well. About this time a loosened fragment of the skull was
removed almost the size and shape of a dessert spoon, with the
handle attached, leaving a circular opening directly over the eye
as large as a Mexican dollar, through which cerebral pulsation
was visible. A peculiar feature of this case was that the boy
never lost consciousness, and while one of his playmates ran for
assistance he got out of the hole himself, and moved to a spot
ten feet distant before any help arrived, and even then he
declined proffered aid from a man he disliked. This boy stated
that he remembered each revolution of the lever and the
individual injuries that each inflicted. Three years after his
injury he was in every respect well. Fraser mentions an instance
of a boy of fifteen who was caught in the crank of a
balance-wheel in a shingle-mill, and was taken up insensible.
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