His symptoms were relieved, and from that day he never had a bad symptom; all the treatment his case required being merely low diet and free purging. Another almost identical case occurred in our own hospital at Scutari, where I saw the patient under the of Staff-surgeon Menzics. The ball had in thi< case entered two inches In-hindthe left car, passed deeply, and was removed from the temple. Some iorrhage set in from 1 o;h wounds, as well as from a few days after injury, but it was am 'ire. He was dull, complained of headace tor a tew days after th. nee of the bleeding; low diet and puruinij lie made an excellent. only that liis hearing was destroyed on tin A soldier, aged nineteen, to the Second Division. ick at Inkennann by a rifle ball, over the head to the riirht of the centre line.
The ball, passing from before backward, the bone, brr akin LC both tables. This patient dedand that lost his senses, but felt so weak that he h; 0W1L He walked to the hospit. he was twin 1. The 'OII (L, P the line H's bemg 11 fragments. waa. with the forceps, and ( implied.!ii was bareil, but tindura mater, alth" 1, was not found lorn. A threatened attack of inrla: of the brain was successfully combated by the patient made a Aliens abihe brain pulsai ity of on tin back part of I and He so d, rose, and fracture waa at first -wound Till-: i 'KIMKAX which existed, was dressed simply by the surgeon under whose charge he fell.
Headache alone was complained of for some days, during which period he was kept low, and freely purged. When the wound was nearly he; he was unfortunately allowed butcher meat and a gill of rum. About a week afterwards, severe cerebral symptoms rapidly and suddenly showed themselves, and the wound took on an unhealthy action. The injury was now more carefully examined, the scalp being incised to assist the investigation. A fracture of the occipital bone was found. Bleeding was encouraged from the incision; leeches were placed on the mastoid processes; he was well purged, and cold applied to the head. His diet was again reduced. The unfavourable symptoms almost immediately subsided, and, by the use of low diet and purgatives, soon totally disappeared, never to return.
In this case a too generous diet doubtless caused the appearance of the unpleasant symptoms which supervened, and which, if not promptly arrested, would have been fatal. The local bleeding assisted materially; but the active purging, the cold applications, and the low diet were the chief means of saving him. The following case, the particulars of which were kindly famished me by acting Assistant-surgeon Brock of the 47th regiment, was a most interesting one, not only from the extent of the injury, but from "the phases of recovery." Keefe, a private in the 47th regiment, aged 23, was struck, on the 15th November, by a piece of shell over the vertex of the head, and felled to the ground.