Practical observations on injuries of the head / By William Sharp.

  • Sharp, William, 1805-1896.
Date:
1841
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    pass away; and after another short interval return, it is with great propriety that the first symptoms are referred to concussion, and the second to compression. But exceptions to these observations are often met with; in some eases of concussion the symptoms do not come on for some time after the injury has been received; in some cases of compression, the effusion of blood is so considerable, that the symptoms are immediate; and ina third set. of cases in which concussion and rupture are com- bined, the symptoms caused by the latter come on before those produced by the former have had time to subside, when the effects of both being so similar, and so blended together, it is clearly impossible to distinguish the causes with any certainty. This first separation of the two kinds of cases was beneficial; but the progress which has been made in perfecting the distinction, during the hundred years which have since elapsed, has not been so great as might have been hoped for P