The Surgical Treatment of Injuries of the Head.
Year: 1895
Type: article
Abstract: The treatment of head injuries is a subject of general interest. Such injuries occur in the practice of every medical man. With the exception of such general remedies as rest, ice, cathartics and sedatives their treatment is necessarily surgical, and when successfully carried out furnish a good test of the mastery of the technique of aseptic and antiseptic methods. No injury of the head can be considered trivial, for the simplest one may lead to fatal consequences. The cause of this results anatomically from the well-known close structural connection between the coverings and contents of the brain, and pathologically, in the fact of direct or embolic germ infection. Anatomically we have a rather thin skin connected to the aponeurosis of the occipito-frontalis muscle by a very dense cellular structure, the fibers of which have something of a ligamentous strength and inclose a peculiarly vascular adipose tissue with which the vessel's
Source: JAMA
Author: CHARLES B. PARKER
Language: English
Subfield: Neurology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2015526511