Interesting Brain Injuries

We clip the following from that ineomparably valuable publieation. Dr. Foot's Iloalth Monthly: Those individuáis who place grea! stress on the importance of the brain 111 :iy reaü the following authentic items with prolit: "Larre tumors s1owly formed, maj exist within the skull without a symp torn." Ur. Marshall Hall, on Diseasfl . in the Laneet.London, March 24th,18SS p. J2-t. "A large portion of bone may b driven down without any permanent Uturbaoce of the functions of the lir.i'n." Practical Surgery, Fourth Editon, London, 1846, p. 43. "Several ounoes of the brain have 1) en lost in consequenco of wo'.inds. without death, or the loss of meniory oi intellect." Sir Charles Htll's Anatozm :ind PhjsiologT of the Human l'och. LoDdon, 1816, Vol I', p. 408. Lebert mentions forty-five cases ol tumors in the brain, and in mo-t o) these oases the mind was mot effeoted, ind the mental faculties were rotained lo the last. Arohiv fur PathologUb Vnatomie, etc. Iia;d III, p. 47ö. Of 704 gunshot wounds of the heat] 505 died and 199 recovered in tin Amurican arm; from the commence ment of the war to October lst, 1864 Of tlie thirty-two cases of liver woun b. in tiie samo anny, twenty-ciht died. The Medical Times and Gazotte, ]on don, July 28th, 1866, pp-100. "Some parts of the brain may be in jured, or even totally destroyed, without o;casioning any perceptible ínterruption to the organic functions; th( slightcst lesión of other parts will insi antly destroy life." Dr. Be jamin C. Brodle, V. K. S.. inMedico-Chirurgical Transaetions Vol. XIV. "Indeed it frequently oecurs thai considerable portions of the br.iin are losl and j'ot the mental and bodily fnno lions continue nnimpared." The veteran Medi al J uinal also relates a case of brain injuiy thus "There vvas a large transverse opening in th( os frontis, through which a considerable imntity of brain had been lost H;s mimi was not at all aft'ected, neitl) er were the bodily powera in the lcasi distnrbed, no bad syinptoms of an kind followed the injury." J he Lanet ondon, 1823, p. 292.