The Case of Mr John Parry< no role >

On the 21st of July last I was call'd to the Above person,
who I was. Inform'd was knockt down, on Examination there
appear'd a large contus'd wound on the last side of the Occipital
bone, which wound I Attended every day without any had symptom
attending, till the friday following, at which time the abovesaid
person was siezed with an Epileptie fit, which was succeeded
by a Stupor, a Universal numbness and Tremor of his Arms &
hands, which Symptoms gave room to suspect a Concussion of the
Brain with a rupture of some of the principal vessels of the same.
on the 29th. the Trepan was set on the sevll from whence Issued a
large quantity of Extravosated blood, On this day being the 4th of Augt.
I opened the head, by taking off the Sevll all round. where I discover'd
the Vessells of the Pia Mater distended very large and many of them ruptured
as also of the Dura mater, with a large quantity of putrefied matter
on the Cerebellum between the lobes of the Cerebrum and in
my Opinion the Contus'd wound was the Cause of this death.

Horsford

Taken & Acknow-
leg'd this 8th
day of Augt. 1760.
before
E. Umfreville
Coronr.