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