Traumatic injuries of the brain and its membranes : with a special study of pistol-shot wounds of the head in their medico-legal and surgical relations.

Phelps, Charles, 1834-1913.

Date:: 1897

Credit: Traumatic injuries of the brain and its membranes : with a special study of pistol-shot wounds of the head in their medico-legal and surgical relations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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$TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART I. General Traumatic Lesions. a preliminary consideration of cranial fracture. PAGE Classification of Injuries of the Head, ....... i Cranial Fracture, 2 Classification, . . . ........ 2 Fracture of the Cranial Base, ........ 3 Direct and Indirect, ......... 4 Mechanism, . 6 Complications of Cranial Fracture, 11 Symptomatology and Diagnosis, 12 Fractures of the Vault, ......... 12 Fractures of the Base, ......... 13 External Hemorrhages of Cranial or Intracranial Origin ; . .13 their Comparative Frequency in Different Forms of Basic Frac- ture, 14 their Diagnostic Value, . . . . . . . . . iS Escape of Brain Matter, ......... 21 Water}- Discharges, 21 CEdema of the Mastoid Region, ....... 23 Implication of the Cranial Nerves, ...;... 24 Localized Pain, .......... 26 Indirect Symptoms from Intracranial Complication, . ' . .27 Prognosis, ............ 28 Concomitant and Consecutive Complications, . . . .30 Treatment, 32 Shock, ............ 33 Fracture of the Base, ......... 33 Fracture of the Vault, ......... 34 Incision, ............ 35 Elevation of Depressed Bone, ....... 36 Trephination, . . 39$