The diseases of children / by James Frederic Goodhart.

  • Goodhart, James Frederic, Sir, 1845-1916.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The diseases of children / by James Frederic Goodhart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    viz., the tendency that exists in the ceiebellum for the formation of simple cysts. There is no means of arriving at a diagnosis without the trephine, and it seems to be quite worth the wliile, in a disease which is hopeless without it, to give the patient just the faint chance trephining offers of coming upon a cyst and evacuating its contents. Modern antiseptic sur- gery has taken away much of the danger that attached to trephining in former times, and there is probably no extraordinary risk in the operation, nor in punc- turing the membranes and lateral lobes of the cere- bellum with a fine trocar.