on the 10th April 1879, in a state of insensibility, with an injury to the head. The following day, while passing through Kashipore in medical charge of a detachment of British Troops, I was asked by the Assistant-Surgeon of the hospital to see the case ; he told me he suspected fracture of the skull. The history of the patient is as follows :?two hours prior to her reception into hospital, the...

The patient was admitted into the hospital on 25th July, 1934, with a contused wound on the head. On examination an infected wound was seen on the right side of the forehead 1 inch above the right eyebrow; it measured f inch long and extended down to the bone. The frontal bone was fractured and depressed and the patient deeply unconscious. There was marked ecchymosis of both the eyelids and the...

common interest, they are thought to be of sufficient importance to merit description together. In that first to be described, the patient wns abov of ten who some four days after the receipt of his injury was brought in from a neighbouring village, some eight or ten miles off, for treatment. His case is of especial interest on account of its being one of an injury to the Rolatidic area, which,...

To cite: Kassam K, Messiha A. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013202633 DESCRIPTION We report a case of a patient with a 9-day history of trismus measured at 9 mm (figure 1). The trismus occurred immediately after an alleged assault with punch injuries to the face. Note the flattening of the malar process on the left hand side of the face. X-rays ...

ture for some days and hernia cerebri set in. Every morning some brain substance came away and f ungated out of the wound; after ten days it became obvious that certain cerebral symptoms were setting in. She complained of great pain in the head, and giddiness and vomiting, she had lost her memory for visual words that is to say, her visual word dictionary in the angular gyrus was wiped out and ...

down. He remembers being driven to the Infirmary and being carried to the ward, and was able to give his name and address; and he recognised his father about an hour later, but afterwards he lapsed into semi-consciousness, and was in that state when I saw him between 9 and 10. He was then restless, and had vomited; there were no twitchings or convulsions; pupils were equal and reacted to light;...

Moni Muljee, a female child, aged 4, was brought in an unconscious state with scalp wounds into the Eden Hospital, on 6th June 1896, at 6-30 p.m. The friends stated, that the child had a fall from the second story of a house about 16 feet high, on a brick pavement floor, about half an hour before admission The child was picked up insensible and was immediately removed to hospital. On admission,...

nose. At this latter point was a small soft pulsating swelling. The pupils were somewhat dilated and there was extensive extravasation of blood in the right orbit. Breathing was regular. Pulse quick. Right arm was kept still, though no sign of bruising. No paralj'sis of the left side. Bladder and rectum unaffected. 18th?Operation.?Two large flaps were made, with the purpose of avoiding the ante...