34 An Argument againft 
in hydrocephalous cafes, and in fuppuration of 
the Brain, I have obferved with aftonifhment, 
that the faculties were Spe sutpions th as the fatal 
difeafe proceeded.. 
In the following cafe, related by Du Verney, 
though the condition of the bafis of the brain is not 
clearly defcribed, yet a confiderable injury muft 
have been done to it, by the fracture of the Os 
Sphenoides in the direction fpecified. 
A Gentleman had: his left eye crufhed to pieces 
by a blow from a ftone, and the orbit beaten in 
upon the brain. After the firft fhock, his faculties 
were entirely unimpaired, till his death, which hap- 
pened on the feventh day; infomuch that fome of 
his medical attendants pronounced it impoffible 
that the brain fhould be injured; the appearances 
on diffection were thefe ‘* Le crane levé et le 
‘* cerveau ouvert, nous le trouvimes rempli d'une 
efpece de bouillie qui n’etoit autre chofe qu'une 
‘** fonte d’une partie de la fubftance du cerveau 
avec quantité de petites efquilles qui avoient eté 
ou par la fuppuration. ‘Toute la fubftance du 
Cerveau etoit egalement contufe et alterée jufqu’au 
*« cervelet; leurs Anfractuofites fe trouvant fe- 
parces les unes des autres par la diffolution et le 
relachement de la pie-mere. Enfin le cerveau 
etant oté, nous reconnumes que la partie Ante- 
** rieure de la key de Tos Sphenoide etoit toute 
“ eerafée.” 
pouffees jufques la, ou par la violence de coup, | 
