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XVI r. Case of Injury of the Head, 



To Mr. Tilloch. 



Sir, JLJxFFERr.NT Numbers of your Magazine having at 

 times falitn in my way, and seeing that several medical 

 cases were recorded; I thought I would send you the fol- 

 lowing uoles of a case which has hitcly come under my 

 own observation, that, if you deemed fit, they may be in- 

 serted in vour widely circulating Magazine. 



From your humble servant, 



John Burne. 



J. T. aged 36, for the last ten months has been a con- 

 stable. About five months ao;o he was struck on the fore- 

 head bv a man he was endeavouring to secure. He felt very 

 little inconvenience from the blow, and went about his em- 

 ployment as usual. 



Jan. 3, 181'i. He said he was very unwell, with a dull 

 heavv pain in the head, but he complained of nothing else ; 

 his appetite was very good ; his bowels pretty regular ; his 

 eyesight verv good, and he could walk about quite well. 

 I^ Pulveris Rhei. 



Terebinthinte Chias ait 5J. M. Ft. pilulze xxx, qua- 

 rum duas bis die suniat. 

 R Emplastrum Picis conipr)situm Ncucha. 

 Jan. 7th, he found himself much better; the pain was 

 nearly gone, and he thought he should have no need to 

 apply again. The above treatment continued. 



Jan. 17th. I have heard nothing of him since the 7th 

 till this morning, when he sent to request tint I would visjt 

 him, for he was confined to his bed, and very dangerously 

 ill. When I visited him (which was about noon), 1 was 

 informed from his wife that he had continued to get much 

 better till the l6th, when he was suddenly seized with paia 

 in the head, giddiness, trembling; lost his speech, and the 

 use of his right arm. In this state I found him ; the light 

 did not affect his eves; he seemed very dull and stupid ; 

 his bowels were confined : 



R Sul)muriatis Hydrargyri cr. vj. 



Pulveris Khci gr. x, M. Ft. pulvis slatim sumendus 

 ex Theriacfi. 

 B Emplastrum Lyttce Neuclui. 

 Jan. 18th. Bowels have been purged ; has passed a very 

 restless night : cannot speak; in other respects the same : 

 his skin hot and drv. 



H 3 -ft Misturae 



