In four months recovery was entire.

Bontius relates a singular accident to a sailor, whose head was crushed between a ship and a small boat; the greater part of the occipital bone was taken away in fragments, the injury extending almost to the foremen magnum.

Bontius asserts that the patient was perfectly cured by another surgeon and himself.

Galen mentions an injury to a youth in Smyrna, in whom the brain was so seriously wounded that the anterior ventricles were opened; and vet the patient recovered.
Glandorp mentions a case of fracture of the skull out of which his father took large portions of brain and some fragments of bone.

He adds that the man was afterward paralyzed an the opposite side and became singularly irritable.