26 _ An Argument againft 
of the lateral ventricles went about as ufual, for a 
fortnight. He then died. It feems that his 
Surgeon thruft a probe into the ventricle daily, 
without exciting any fenfation.* 
A woman, under Diemerbroeck’s . immediate 
> infpection, whofe fkull was fractured by the fall of 
a large ftone, loft a quantity of brain equal in fize 
to a man’s fift, yet fhe lived thirty-fix days after 
the accident, without alienation of mind, though 
‘paralytic on the fide oppofite to the fracture. On 
diffetion, a confiderable vacuity, appeared on the 
right fide (from which the portions of brain 
had been difcharged) accompanied with fuppura- 
tion, and extending through the lateral to the 
third ventricle, and to the Os fphenoides. 
The moft remarkable cafe of this kind is quoted 
by La Peyronie: A child, fix years old, received 
a piftol-fhot in the head; a fuppuration followed, 
during which he loft a great quantity of the brain 
at every dreffing. At the end of eighteen days he 
died, having retained his faculties to the lalt. 
When the head was opened, the portion of Brain 
remaining in the fkull did not exceed the fize of 
a {mall egg.f 
Left 
*In Dr, Haller’s experiments on living Animals, the 
bafis of the brain appeared to be the feat of Senfibility. 
Phyfiolog, T. 4. p. 315. 
+ Anatom. p.-580, 1. 
+ Mem, de l’Academ, Ann, £741. 
