Wounds of the Brain

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Excerpt from Wounds of the Brain: An Essay Read by Appointment Before the Luzerne County Medical Society at Wilkes-Barre, Jan'y 14, 1885 There are two classes of diseases, and likewise of injuries, the treatment of which has not yet been very generally agreed upon, and which seems likely to long remain unsettled. I refer to those widely differing conditions in which the disease or the injury is so slight that the unaided efforts of nature usually suffice to effect a restoration to health, or a complete repair of the injury, and to those malignant diseases and grave injuries in which the best directed therapeutic or surgical skill appears to exert but little power in averting a fatal termination. Whatever is done for the one class of cases seems to succeed, and consequently an endless variety of supposed remedies and of surgical procedures, each asserting superiority over its rivals, claims our adoption, while, on the other hand, whatever means we apply or whatever measures we adopt, are usually doomed to failure, and acquire only disrepute. The subject of our discussion to-day - wounds of the brain - is mainly included in the latter class. They are always of grave import, yet while none are so trivial as to be destitute of danger, or to be disregarded in treatment, few, which are not immediately fatal, are so severe as to preclude the possibility of recovery. It becomes important, therefore, for the surgeon to determine how to direct his efforts, in treating this class of injuries, so as to secure the largest measure of that limited success that is attainable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.