62 Injuries of Bone. 



Skull of a young adult — macerated — to show a bullet wound 

 and trephine opening in the left frontal region. 



' ' The ball struck this soldier on the sphenoidal angle of the frontal 

 bone. It fractured the bone into small pieces. These were picked away, 

 and a question arose whether or not the ball had entered. The dura 

 mater was entire. It had not, then, entered the cavity, and an examina- 

 tion being made with the probe under the skull, the ball was discovered 

 lodged above the left eye. Calculation being made of its exact distance 

 from the place of the fracture, the trephine was applied there, and the 

 ball extracted. The portion of the bone cut out by the trephine is 

 attached to the skull, and the ball is replaced. The ball is flattened in 

 that manner to give the idea of its only being half a ball. The man 

 died of suppuration in the brain." 



The piece of bone and the ball alluded to in Sir Charles 

 Bell's account of the case have been mislaid or lost. 



The upper left canine tooth is retained within the alveolus 

 in this skull. B. C. xvii. 1. 



3. 57. Old standing- Pistol Shot Fracture of the Skull.— 



Skull of an aboriginal Australian from Upper Brisbane, 

 Queensland, Moreton district — macerated — showing an old- 

 standing injury in the right frontal region. 



" While uncivilised, this man was shot in the head by a squatter 

 at 60 yards distance (size of bullet, No. 12). The ball penetrated just 

 above the right supraciliary ridge, and destroyed part of the roof of the 

 orbit, where it seems to have been lodged. For two weeks the man 

 suffered from paroxysms of intense pain. The bullet was then spontan- 

 eously discharged, along with much pus, and he soon recovered. For 

 the next seven years until his death he acted as a shepherd, and was 

 very intelligent for a native. During three years he suffered from a dull 

 headache more or less constant. He was killed in a quarrel with another 

 native." 



The skull is very heavy and thick, and the bony ridges 

 are strongly marked. G. C. 2531. 



Presented by Forbes, Esq. 



3. 58. Sabre Wounds of the Skull.— Skull of a young adult, 

 showing sabre cuts behind the vertex. 



It was picked up on the field of the battle of the Pyramids. 

 There are three parallel cuts in the back of the skull, and 



