The Surgery of the Skull and Brain
OXFORD MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS
PUBLISHED BY THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF HENRY FROWDE AND HODDER & STOUGHTON AT THE OXFORD PRESS WAREHOUSE FALCON SQUARE, LONDON, E.C.
OXFORD MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS
THE SURGERY OF THE SKULL AND BRAIN
L. BATHE RAWLING, F.R.C.S. SURGEON, WITH CHARGE OF OUT-PATIENTS, SENIOR DEMONSTRATOR OF PRACTICAL SURGERY DEMONSTRATOR OF OPERATIVE SURGERY, ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL LATE HUNTERIAN PROFESSOR, ETC.
LONDON
HENRY FROWDE Oxford University Press
HODDER & STOUGHTON Warwick Square, E.C.
1912
OXFORD: HORACE HART PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
This work on the Surgery of the Skull and Brain is based on experience derived, and on research carried out, during the past ten years.
Cranio-Cerebral Surgery, though still in its infancy, has progressed with leaps and bounds during the past few years. This book represents the most modern aspects of the case and is brought up to date by means of a recent visit to some of the leading surgical clinics of the United States of America.
Louis Bathe Rawling
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE CONTROL OF HÆMORRHAGE
THE OPENING OF THE SKULL
CEPHALOCELES
TRAUMATIC CEPHALOCELES
FRACTURES OF THE VAULT
BIRTH-HÆMORRHAGES
DERMOIDS
HYDROCEPHALUS
FRACTURES OF THE BASE OF THE SKULL
SYMPTOMS RESULTING FROM FRACTURE OF THE BASE OF THE SKULL
SYMPTOMS POINTING TO FRACTURE OF THE MIDDLE FOSSA
SYMPTOMS POINTING TO FRACTURE OF THE POSTERIOR FOSSA
FRACTURE OF THE MASTOID PORTION OF THE TEMPORAL BONE
FRACTURES OF THE VAULT OF THE SKULL
TREATMENT OF FRACTURES OF THE VAULT OF THE SKULL
THE MORTALITY FROM FRACTURE OF THE SKULL
HÆMORRHAGES
INJURY TO THE BRAIN
MENINGEAL CYSTS
ABSCESS OF THE BRAIN
MENINGITIS
SINUS THROMBOSIS
HERNIA CEREBRI
NEURALGIA MINOR
NEURALGIA MAJOR
INDEX
Transcriber’s Notes