38 - An Argument againft 
Another of his patients received a wound from 
a halbert, which pierced to the Os Bafilare:* he 
retained his faculties, but became epileptic, in 
-confequence of a collection of pus being formed on 
the bone. 
The wound of the Duke of Guife, mentioned by 
Ambrofe Pare, is {till more extraordinary ; yet 
Pare’s authority is very great. The Duke,  fays he, 
was wounded in the head by the thruft of a lance 
which entered under the right eye, near the nofe, 
and came out at the neck, between the ear and the 
vertebra. The fteel of the lance remained in the 
brain, and was extracted with great difficulty. 
The patient recovered completely. Paré, I think, 
fpeaks of this cafe from his own knowledge. 
But, to come ftill clofer to the point, Bonner 
himfelf faw the ftructure of the bafis wholly deftroyed, 
in a patient who died after an illnefs of eleven days ; 
who fuffered no alienation of his faculties till within 
a very {hort period before his death, and was then 
only delirious at times, and perfectly fenfible during 
the intervals. The appearances were ftriking. 
“« Tota fere bafis cerebri,” fays Bonnet, ‘‘ imprimis 
“‘ cerebellum, et ea pars Spinalis medulle que 
‘* primis 
* There is an ambiguity in this word, as both the Os 
Occipitis and Os Sphenoidis have had this name applied to 
them, but from the expreffion, and the intimation of internal 
fuppuration, I conceive the latter to have been meant, 
t+ Chirurg. Lib, 10, 
