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<p n="68">The Case of Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50486_n68-1">John Parry</rs>
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<p n="69">On the 21st of July last I was call'd to the Above person,<lb></lb>
who I was. Inform'd was knockt down, on Examination there<lb></lb>
appear'd a large contus'd wound on the last side of the Occipital<lb></lb>
bone, which wound I Attended every day without any had symptom<lb></lb>
attending, till the friday following, at which time the abovesaid<lb></lb>
person was siezed with an Epileptie fit, which was succeeded<lb></lb>
by a Stupor, a Universal numbness and Tremor of his Arms &<lb></lb>
hands, which Symptoms gave room to suspect a Concussion of the<lb></lb>
Brain with a rupture of some of the principal vessels of the same.<lb></lb>
on the 29th. the Trepan was set on the sevll from whence Issued a<lb></lb>
large quantity of Extravosated blood, On this day being the 4th of Augt.<lb></lb>
I opened the head, by taking off the Sevll all round. where I discover'd<lb></lb>
the Vessells of the Pia Mater distended very large and many of them ruptured<lb></lb>
as also of the Dura mater, with a large quantity of putrefied matter<lb></lb>
on the Cerebellum between the lobes of the Cerebrum and in<lb></lb>
my Opinion the Contus'd wound was the Cause of this death.</p>
<p n="70">Horsford</p>
<p n="71">Taken & Acknow-<lb></lb>
leg'd this 8th<lb></lb>
day of Augt. 1760.<lb></lb>
before<lb></lb>
E. Umfreville<lb></lb>
Coronr.</p>
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