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where large parts of the lobes have been lost 

 without the least effect on the patient's body or 

 mind. In a Lumleian lecture, Dr Baddeley quotes 

 the case of a boy who lost a portion of his brain 

 through a fissure in his skull caused by violent 

 injury, and who was so little affected that he 

 earnestly requested that the part of his brains 

 might be sent to his schoolmaster, who had often 

 asserted that he had no brains. 



The Anthropological Review also gives the follow- 

 ing instances of brain injury without correspond- 

 ing mental injury. "A young man at Ghent 

 lost by a pistol-shot two teacupsful of brain, 

 and more at subsequent dressings. He lived for 

 two years with his intellect vastly improved, 

 having been before of limited intelligence." 



Paroisse {Opuscules de Chirurgie^ Paris, 1806) 

 received, after the battle of Landrecies, in the 

 hospital at Soissons, twenty-two wounded soldiers. 

 In all of them a considerable portion of the 

 cranium, integuments, and brain had been cleanly 

 cut off in battle by sharp swords. All of them 

 marched, with their wounds, thirty-five leagues, 

 about five leagues a day, to the hospital. Ten of 

 these soldiers, in whom the loss of bone, integu- 

 ment, and brain was less, recovered completely 

 within six or seven weeks. The remaining twelve 

 were carried off in about three weeks. In none 



