,$0 On the Management of the Scalped Head. 



M. Baldwin, and some others, were scalped either in 

 the year 1790, or 1791. Their sculls I also bored, or 

 directed it to be done. They all recovered. 



I never knew one that was scalped, and bored as above 

 directed, that did not perfectly recover. There is always 

 part of the scalped head over which but little or no hair 

 afterwards grows. 



In 1769, I saw a young man in South-Carolina, who 

 had been scalped eight years before that time, and about 

 twice the size of a dollar of the bone of his head was 

 then perfectly bare, dry, and black. I am persuaded, 

 that had his skull, even then, been bored, he might 

 have recovered of the wound, which put an end to his 

 life about a year after after I saw him ; the naked por- 

 tion of bone having rotted, or mortified, and exposed 

 the substance of his brain, a very considerable quantity 

 of which issued out at the opening, at his death. ^ 



Nashville, April lOth, 1806. 



IV. Remarks on the Treatment of Strangulated Hernia. 

 BylK^'E.^ Lyons, M. D., of Richmond, in Firgi- 

 nia ; with a Jiote by Dr. J. Worral. Communi- 

 cated to the Editor, by Dr. Lyons. 



ON Saturday, the 8th of December, 1805, a 

 black lad, about 19 years of age, in unloading a waggon- 

 load of wood, I)y throwing the logs backwards over his 

 head, forced the ring of the abdominal muscle. He did 



