On the Management of the Scalped-Head. 2,9 



The awl may, at this time, and, indeed, for a consi- 

 derable length of time, be forced through the flesh to 

 the bone without the patient's feeling it ; but after any 

 part has united to that portion of the scalp, which has 

 remaining original skin, it becomes immediately sen- 

 sible to the touch. 



The scalped-head cures very slowly, and if this kind 

 of flesh rise, in places, higher than common, touch it with 

 blue-stone water, dress it once or twice a-day, putting a 

 coat of lint over it every time you dress it, ^vith a nar- 

 row plaister of ointment. 



It skins remarkably slow, generally taking two years 

 to cure up. 



In the year 1781, David Hood was shot, at this place, 

 with several balls, and two scalps were taken off his 

 head, and tliese took off" nearly all the skin which had 

 hair on it. I attended him, bored his skull, and re- 

 moved from almost the whole of his head, such black 

 scales as I have described above. It was three or four 

 years before his head skinned over entirely ; but he is 

 now living, and is well. 



In 1789, Richard Lancaster and Joel Staines AA'-ere 

 both ^^ ounded, scalped, and left for dead. These per- 

 sons were under my directions, and their heads ivere 

 bored as above described. They both got wcli, in the 

 course of two years. 



