A Case of Fracture of the Base of Skull by Contrecoup
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Reazoodeex, aged 20 years, a stout, lie^lthy-looking Maliomedan, was admitted in Dr. Partridge's ward, in the Medical College Hospital, on the 1st October, 18G7, at 7.J a. in., in a perfectly unconscious state, with bleeding from the cars. He was said to have received a very violent blow 011 the vertex, about an hour before admission, by a fall with his head downwards. The pupils were much dilated, and quite insensible to light ; respiration easy; no stertor ; no fracture or depression of skull could be detected ; pulse rather feeble. A cathartic enema was
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دوره 2 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016