This man also recovered.
Jewett mentions a case in which an injury somewhat similar to that in Bigelow's case was produced by a gas-pipe.
Among older writers, speaking of loss of brain-substance with subsequent recovery, Brasavolus saw as much brain evacuated as would fill an egg shell; the patient afterward had an impediment of speech and grew stupid.

Franciscus Arcaeus gives the narrative of a workman who was struck on the head by a stone weighing 24 pounds falling from a height.

The skull was fractured; fragments of bone were driven into the brain.

For three days the patient was unconscious and almost lifeless.
After the eighth day a cranial abscess spontaneously opened, from the sinciput to the occiput, and a large quantity of "corruption" was evacuated.

Speech returned soon after, the eyes opened, and in twenty days the man could distinguish objects.