MacCormac reports a case of a boy of nine who was run over by a carriage drawn by a pair of horses.

He suffered fracture of the base of the skull, of the bones of the face, and of the left ulna, and although suppuration at the points of fracture ensued, followed by an optic neuritis, an ultimate recovery was effected.

Ball, an Irish surgeon, has collected several instances in which the base of the skull has been driven in and the condyle of the jaw impacted in the opening by force transmitted through the lower maxilla.
The tolerance of foreign bodies in the brain is most marvelous.

In the ancient chronicles of Koenigsberg there is recorded the history of a man who for fourteen years carried in his head a piece of iron as large as his finger.

After its long lodgment, during which the subject was little discommoded, it finally came out by the palatine arch.