When seen by the surgeon his hair was matted and his clothes saturated with blood.

There was a terrible gap in the scalp from the superciliary ridge to the occipital bone, and, though full of clots, the wound was still oozing.

In a cloth on a bench opposite were rolled up a portion of the malar bone, some fragments of the os frontis, one entire right parietal bone, detached from its fellow along the sagittel suture, and from the occipital along the lambdoidal suture, perhaps taking with it some of the occipital bone together with some of the squamous portion of the temporal bone.

This bone was as clean of soft parts as if it had been removed from a dead subject with a scalpel and saw.

No sight of the membranes or of the substance of the brain was obtained.