He suffered an elliptic wound, ten by eight cm., a portion of the outer table of the cranium being removed, yet the wound healed over.
Cerebral Injuries .-- The recent advances in brain-surgery have, in a measure, diminished the interest and wonder of some of the older instances of major injuries of the cerebral contents with unimportant after-results, and in reviewing the older cases we must remember that the recoveries were made under the most unfavorable conditions, and without the slightest knowledge of all important asepsis and antisepsis.
Penetration or even complete transfixion of the brain is not always attended with serious symptoms.

Dubrisay is accredited with the description of a man of forty-four, who, with suicidal intent, drove a dagger ten cm.

long and one cm.

wide into his brain.

He had deliberately held the dagger in his left hand, and with a mallet in his right hand struck the steel several blows.