SURGICAL CASE.-On the 10t...
SVPRG[CAL CArE-(3n the 10th of Septemnber, 1822, we (ihe -r-feitone Gazette) stated the particulars of a case in which a a. nam.ed George ltenjan in Pidgon, aged 10 yVearp, eceived a 'i-adfut fracture of the os froatis from a blow jf tne Winch of a well at Barrning. M'lt. 1bhatnan, of Maidstone, the medical gentle- lr;an wHo attended the boy, at first considered it a h6peless case. as ir.vmrds of two tea-s ontfuls of brain exuded and separated from theiasra As mazy te supposed, highly Inflaniiatory symptoms mtpervened, but by the free use of the lancet, and unceasing atten- sion, those snptotns were kept under. At the end of five weeks the wound had closed, and the boy was sufficient]v recovered to be renroved The boy and his 'mother having Ucen emrployed in hopping bv Mlr. ,Ellis, that gentleman vcrr humanely had a cat s&iUtg to a w'aggon for the b_y's remova, and he was in thzt nianner-conveyed wvith vety little fiatigue to London. No- t.ig further was heard of the boy until yesterday, the 6th of beptembtr' (on which day of the month in 1822 the aKi- dent happened), wrhen his mother took him to Nr. Whatman's, to %hnw him the coMplete success of his skilful and humanze attentions. The frmctuse was on the oe frontiL aboie the right eye. A portion of the skull was pressed into the.brain, and it was found necessarvy to ta2eawaysa considerable portion of the bone, to the length extend- ig laterally to about 2g inches, and in. some parts an inch in width. The pulsation of the braini is ver visible thTou,h the soft covering of the rround, and corresponds stth the pulse of the wrist. At the lower art of the oefrentisnasnrehas formed an additionalcalloas, that protrude. a little ovcr the eyeo . TFhegeneral health of the boy it grod, and his appea.ance is thc samc. iHe is considerably grown sinc time accide:nt, -and the ealy dan;er of fur;hqr inconvenience is ftomn the occurrncne of a blow or other accident, by which the par. mar Vustain violent and sudden pressure or Tap sure. The boy and hizsothcr are come down to get employmeat in fiojpiIlg fo r. Ellis.