32 An Argument againft 
bafis, fince the fracture of the Sphenoid bone, in 
that place, muft have immediately given a great 
fhock to the Pests Varolii, and the medulla oblon- 
gata; but I muft befpeak your patience for the 
next quotation, which is at leaft as important. It 
is a Cafe of Dr. Brunner’s in the Appenpix to 
Werrer. ‘Trutu diftils flowly through Teutonic 
Latin. . 
A Blackfmith, 64 years of age, a potent drinker, 
and induftrious workman, (as Dr. Brunner tells 
us, in an eloquent periphrafis,) was ftruck down in 
a fit of Apoplexy on the 7th. of Odober, 1687, 
and expired immediately, though he had paffed 
the morning in apparent good health. His facul- 
ties had never been impaired. ‘The diffection 
you fhall read in the Doors own words: 
‘* Serra fatis cauté incifo cranio f{calproque effracto, 
** dura mater circa frontem lacerata fuit leviter: 
** revulfurus ollam, fatis firmiter finui longitudinali 
‘‘ adherentem, obfervavi piam matrem aqua 
‘* limpida turgidiffimam, infiar hydatidis proruere, 
** & vix cavi, quin dum auferebam cranium, fubinde 
** effluxerit aqua. Incifa dura matre nihil feri inter 
*“hanc & piam matrem inveni, quippe jam 
*« effluxerat. Sinus longitudinalis amplus, nihil 
‘** humoris aut Sanguinis continuit, fed omnis 
** refluxit verfus finus laterales fluidus. Ablata 
** dura matre ferum perpetim exfudavit et effluxit 
** limpidum ---- uterque autem ventriculus aqua 
‘* fceatebat turbida, quin omnes receffus et cerebri 
* cavitates 
