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appearing above the Dura Mater, 1 extraded ro the 
Number of Five, as they are reprefented in the Draught 
(fee Tab. IV.) in their proper Bignefs and Figures, be- 
ftdes feveral other Bits and fatal l Pieces : In taking out 
the lad Splinter, being Part of the fuperior and in- 
terior Part of the Orbit, containing fome of the Bafts 
and inferior Part of the Os Frontis, joining by the 
Sutura Trdnfver falis to the fuperior Part of the Os 
Mala, with Parc of the iaid Suture and the upper 
Extremity of the Sphenoides , almoft to the lower 
End of the Sutura Coronalis and Squamofa: This 
Splinter was the major Part of it depreffed under the 
fuperior Part of the great Depreflion of the Os 
Frontis , on extrading of which. Two Parts or Pieces 
of the Subfiance of the Brain, with clotted Blood, 
came out with it, one as big as a large Kidney Bean, 
and the other as a large Pea at which Time the Patient 
fainting and vomiting, brought up mod of what was 
contained in his Stomach, mixed with bilious and 
bloody Matter. The ‘Dura Mater was very much 
contufed, lacerated, and bare, upwards of Three 
Inches and a quarter in Length, and at one End One 
Inch and a half over, the Remainder about One Inch, 
and the Edges rugged : From the upper Part of the 
Fradure, there was a Depreflion of the Os Frontis, 
which reached up to the Sutura Sagittalis , nigh the 
Coronal Suture: One Part of th z Cranium lapt over 
the other, which I fawed off on the Third or Fourth 
Day, it being an Inch long, and occafioned me a 
great deal of Trouble, before I could raife it up with 
my Elevator, the inferior Part of the Fradure being 
i'o thin and weak : The depreffed Part terminated in a 
long Fiffurc, about an Inch behind the Coronal Su- 
ture 
