Compound comminuted fractures of the skull : with extensive loss of osseous covering to the brain, recovery / by H.A. Lediard.

  • Lediard, Henry Ambrose, 1847-1932.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Compound comminuted fractures of the skull : with extensive loss of osseous covering to the brain, recovery / by H.A. Lediard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    OF THE SKULL: WITH EXTENSIVE LOSS OF OSSEOUS COVERING TO THE BRAIN; RECOVERY. By H. a. LEDIARD, M.D. Epin., F.R.C.S. Eng., Surgeon to the Cumberland Infirmary. On the night of Dec. 20th, 1892, a carter aged twenty-four was brought to the Cumberland Infirmary suffering from a severe injm’y to the head. It appeared that he was returning on an empty lorry with two other men and that, when sitting in the front part of the waggon, he probably fell off whilst asleep and was run over, for his companions suddenly missing him retraced their steps for about a mile and found him on the road unconscious and bleeding from a wound on the right side of the head. He was placed by them on the waggon and brought into the hospital, a distance of twelve miles. On admission to the infirmary Mr. Mathews, the house sur- geon, found the patient to be unconscious and breathing stertorously; the scalp was reflected from the greater part of the right side of the head and was hanging over the right ear and face; the bone was seen to be broken up into large plates, which were partly loose and tilted out of position and evidence of extensive haemorrhage was present. Both eyes were ecchymosed and the lids swollen and there was bleeding from both nostrils. The injuries were, however.