INDEX

• Abbé’s operation for tic doloreux, 60
• Abscess
• of the brain, acute traumatic, 247
• chronic otitic, 249
• multiple, 247
• of cerebellum, 258
• frontal lobe, 267
• temporo-sphenoidal, 263
• Acoustic tumours, 213
• Adhesions, osseous and meningeal, 195
• Alcohol injections in tic doloreux, 313
• Anæsthesia in head operations, 12
• Anosmia, 162, 220, 263
• Aphasia, 142, 155, 221, 258
• Apraxia, 221
• Arachnoid cysts, 203
• Arachnoid hæmorrhages, 158
• Arachnoid œdema, 168, 186, 203
• Aran’s theory of irradiation, 73
• Archibald
• on birth-hæmorrhages, 53
• compression, 168, 178
• Ataxia, 164, 224, 259
• Attitude in cerebellar lesions, 224, 262
• Aural exostoses, 326, 329
• Author’s operation
• for defects in the skull, 199
• hydrocephalus, 64
• subdural hæmorrhages, 156
• Basal cephaloceles, 34
• Base of skull
• fractures of, 73
• symptoms observed in fractures of, 89
• treatment in fractures of, 116
• weakness of, 73
• Basic foramina, their influence on basic fractures, 81
• Basic fracture, the typical, 77
• Bergmann (von)
• on cephaloceles, 36
• laceration of the brain, 165
• middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 143, 148
• Bilateral cerebellar exposure, 240
• Birth-fractures, 44
• Birth-hæmorrhages, 50
• Bland Sutton on dermoids, 56
• Blood-pressure
• in compression, 174
• concussion, 167
• in middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 140
• operations on the skull and brain, 11, 12
• tumours, 219
• Blood-cysts (subdural), 203
• Bone-flaps
• in cephaloceles, &c. 39
• (König-Müller), 196
• (osteoplastic re-section), 25
• Boullet on fracture of the mastoid bone, 108
• Bowen on subdural hæmorrhage, 153, 158
• Bowlby (Sir Anthony) on bullet-wounds, 297, 299
• Brain
• abscess of, 247
• compression of, 172
• concussion of, 166
• injury to, 159
• irritation of, 171
• tumours of, 210
• Brain-matter, escape of in basal fractures, 93, 101
• Broca’s area, 8, 221
• Bullet-wounds of the skull and brain, 294
• Burghard on Gasserian ganglion removal, 320
• Bursting and compression theories, 74
• Callen on injuries to the optic nerve, 95
• Campbell on cortical motor and sensory areas, 7
• Carcinoma
• of brain, 215
• skull-bones, 334
• Carotid artery, injury to internal, 148
• Cavernous sinus
• injuries of, 150
• thrombosis of, 288
• Cephalalgia, traumatic, 187
• Cephalhæmatomata, 49, 51
• Cephaloceles
• congenital, 31
• traumatic, 40
• Cerebello-pontine tumours, 213, 238
• Cerebral
• abscess, 256
• compression, 172
• concussion, 166, 177
• decompression, 120, 129, 242
• irritation, 171
• laceration, 159
• œdema, 168, 186, 191, 201
• tumours, 223
• Cerebellum
• abscess of, 256
• decompression of, 120, 242
• lesions of, 164
• position of patient in operations on, 12
• surface-marking of, 6
• tumours of, 223
• Cerebro-spinal fluid
• escape of from mouth, nose and ears, 91, 100
• source of, 91
• Cerebrum
• acute anæmia of, 167
• surface marking of, 6
• Chloroform as an anæsthetic, 12
• Chloromata, 334
• Chronic abscess of the brain, 249
• Chronic encapsuled abscess of the brain, 268
• Closure
• of the dura mater, 16, 236
• gaps in the skull, 39, 196
• Coma, traumatic and other forms, 179
• Comminuted, complicated and depressed fractures of vault, 126
• Compression, 172
• Concussion, 166, 177
• Contre-coup theory
• in basic fractures, 75
• brain injury, 160
• Control of hæmorrhage during operations on the skull and brain, 13
• Cortical motor and sensory areas, 7
• Cortical scars, 195
• Cotterill on hydrocephalus, 67
• Crandon and Wilson on hæmorrhages in basic fractures, 91, 99
• Cranial defects, 196
• Craniectomy, 19
• Cranio-cerebral topography, 1
• Craniotomy, 25
• Crowe and Cushing on the use of Urotropin, 116
• Cushing (Harvey)
• on birth-hæmorrhages, 52, 55
• decompression of the brain, 121, 235, 242
• epilepsy, 191
• hydrocephalus, 66
• pituitary tumours, 244
• trigeminal neuralgia, 318
• Cushing’s clips, 18
• tourniquet, 13
• Cysts
• of the brain, 215
• the meninges, 203
• Dana’s syndrome, 209, 225, 259
• Decompression
• cerebellar, 120, 242
• cerebral, 121, 129, 242
• Defects of the skull, closure or protection of, 39
• Dental chair position in head-operations, 12
• Depressed birth-fractures, 44
• Depressed fractures of the vault, 126, 129
• Dermoids, 55
• Duchaine on middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 147
• Dura mater
• hæmorrhage, external to, 133
• hæmorrhage, internal to, 150
• opening of, 19, 29
• suture of, 16, 236
• Duret
• on traumatic epilepsy, 193
• tumours of the brain, 245
• Dwight on fractures of the skull, 98
• Eighth nerve, involvement of in basic fractures, 102, 106
• Electric stimulation of brain in tumour exploration, 233
• Elevation
• of depressed birth-fractures, 45
• fractures of vault, 129
• Endotheliomata of brain and dura, 213
• English
• on remote effects of brain injury, 182, 187
• adhesions between scalp and meninges, &c. 195
• Epilepsy
• idiopathic, 190
• Jacksonian, 189, 192
• traumatic, 189
• Escape
• of air from air-sinuses in basic fractures, 95
• blood in basic fractures, 91, 96, 99
• brain in basic fractures, 93, 101
• cerebro-spinal fluid in basic fractures, 91, 99
• Ether as an anæsthetic, 12
• Exostoses of the skull, 325
• Explosive fractures of the skull, 113
• External table of skull, fracture of, 110, 133, 297
• Extra-cerebellar tumours, 225
• Extra-dural
• hæmorrhage, 135
• suppuration, 284
• Extrinsic sarcomata of the skull-bones, 332
• Falx cerebelli, 4
• cerebri, 1
• Fibromata of dura and brain, 213
• Fifth nerve, involvement of in basic fractures, 95, 101
• Fifth nerve, neuralgia of, 306
• Fissure
• of Rolando, 6
• Sylvius, 6
• Fissured fractures
• adult, 129
• infant, 49
• Foraminal occlusion in skull operations, 17
• Fourth nerve, involvement of in basic fractures, 95
• Fractures
• of base of skull, 73
• external table, 110, 133, 296
• internal table, 110, 296
• mastoid process of temporal bone, 104, 108
• skull, Teevan on, 110, 112, 294
• vault (adult), 68, 109
• vault (birth), 44
• Frazier (Charles)
• on cerebellar tumours, 239
• trigeminal neuralgia, 313, 321
• Frontal exostoses, 329
• Frontal lobe
• abscess of, 262
• lacerations of, 162
• tumours of, 219
• Gaps in the skull, closure or protection of, 196
• Gasserian ganglion, 310, 319
• Gauze coverings in operations on skull and brain, 13, 16
• Gigli saw in operation on skull and brain, 25
• Gliomata of the brain, 211
• Gowers on optic neuritis, 217
• Grafts, muscle, 18
• Grünbaum (and Sherrington) on cortical motor and sensory areas, 7
• Gutter fractures, 296
• Hæmorrhage, control of
• from bone, 17
• brain, 19
• meninges, 17
• scalp, 13
• Hæmorrhage
• conjunctival, 89
• extra-dural, 135
• occipital, 90
• ocular, 90
• palpebral, 90
• pia-arachnoid, 159
• retinal, 90
• subdural, 150, 153
• temporal, 96
• Hæmorrhage
• from ear, 96, 108
• internal carotid, 148
• middle meningeal artery, 135
• mouth, 91, 99
• nose, 91, 99
• venous sinuses, 150
• Hæmorrhage into temporal region, 96
• Hæmorrhages at birth, 50
• Hand-trephine, 21
• Harris (Wilfred) on alcohol injections, 310, 314, 316
• Hartley-Krause operation for trigeminal neuralgia, 316
• Head-injuries, remote effects of, 182
• Hernia cerebri, 291
• Hernial protrusions, 291
• Hill (Leonard) on brain compression, 175
• Holder on injuries to the optic nerve, 93
• Homonymous hemianopia, 222, 227
• Horsley (Sir Victor)
• on the regional mortality of brain tumours, 246
• pituitary tumours, 242
• the ‘two-stage’ operation, 230
• Horsley’s
• disk elevator, 23
• dural separator, 24
• gouge, 25
• Hudson’s trephine, 21
• Hutchinson (Jonathan) on trigeminal neuralgia, 310, 319, 323
• Hutchinson pupil, 141
• Hydrocephalus, 58
• Hysterical neuralgia, 310
• Idiopathic epilepsy, 190
• Inco-ordination of movement
• in cerebellar abscess, 260
• tumours, 224
• Inferior dental nerve, neurectomy of, 308
• Influence
• of air-sinuses in basic fracture, 79
• basic foramina in basic fractures, 81
• sutures in basic fractures, 78
• Infra-orbital nerve, neurectomy of, 308
• Injuries
• to the brain, 159
• head, remote effects of, 182
• internal carotid, 148
• venous sinuses, 152
• Intermusculo-temporal cerebral decompression, 121, 236, 267
• Internal carotid artery, injury to, 148
• Internal table, fractures of, 110, 112, 296
• Intra-cerebellar tumours, 225
• Intra-cranial birth-hæmorrhages, 52
• Irritation of the brain, 171
• Jacksonian epilepsy, 189, 192, 221, 262
• Jacobson on middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 142
• Keen-Hoffmann forceps, 23
• Keith on pituitarism, 226
• Koch and Filehne on cerebral compression, 167
• Kocher
• on compression, 176
• concussion, 166
• epilepsy, 190
• König-Müller flaps, 197
• Krause on pituitary tumours, 243
• Kredel’s hæmostatic sutures, 16, 21
• Krönlein on middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 138
• Lane’s forceps, 25
• Latent period in subdural hæmatocele, 154
• Lateral displacement of cerebellum, 238
• Lateral sinus
• injuries of, 150
• surface-marking of, 1
• thrombosis of, 281
• Line of basic fracture, typical line of, 78
• Lines of basic fracture, 82
• Little’s disease, 52
• Luciani on cerebellar abscess, 260
• Lucid interval in middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 139, 151
• Lumbar puncture
• in hydrocephalus, 61
• meningitis, 281
• subdural hæmorrhage, 54, 120, 155
• tumours, 227, 236
• Lyssenkow on cephaloceles, 32, 39
• Macewen
• on brain abscess, 290
• pus evacuation, 266
• Macewen’s suprameatal triangle, 5
• Malar tubercle, 4
• Mania (acute) after brain injuries, 201
• Mastoid antrum
• operations on, 269
• surface-marking of, 5
• Mastoid process
• displacement of, 108
• exostoses of, 329
• Mechanism of basic fractures, 73
• Meningeal cysts, 203
• Meningitis, 273
• Mental condition
• in abscess of frontal lobe, 263
• compression, 176
• concussion, 170
• irritation of the brain, 171
• lateral sinus thrombosis, 283
• meningitis, 279
• tumours of the brain, 216
• Middle meningeal artery, surface-marking of, 5
• Middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 135
• Morphia
• before and after operation, 11, 30
• in cerebral concussion, 178
• cerebral irritation, 128
• trigeminal neuralgia, 313
• Motor areas of cortex, 7
• Motor speech area, 8
• Multiple abscess of the brain, 247
• Muscle grafts, 18, 234
• Neuralgia
• hysterical, 310
• major, 308
• minor, 306
• of inferior dental nerve, 308
• infra-orbital nerve, 308
• supra-orbital nerve, 309
• Neurasthenia after head-injuries, 185
• Neurectomy of the branches of the fifth nerve, 308
• Nicholl on birth-fractures, 46
• Ninth nerve, involvement of in basic fractures, 106
• Nystagmus, 224
• Occipital cephaloceles, 33
• Occipital lobe
• lesions of, 164
• tumours of, 222
• Occipital sinus, surface-marking of, 4
• Olfactory nerve, involvement of in basic fractures, 94
• Opening of dura mater, 29, 119
• Optic nerve, involvement of in basic fractures, 95
• Optic neuritis
• in abscess of the brain, 254
• lateral sinus thrombosis, 283
• meningitis, 279
• tumours of the brain, 216
• Orbital aneurysm, 204
• Orbital hæmorrhage, 90
• Osteomata of the skull-bones, 325
• Osteoplastic re-section of the skull, 25, 229
• with decompression, 235
• Pachymeningitis, 274
• Palliative treatment of cerebral and cerebellar tumours, 241
• Palpebral hæmorrhage, 90
• Parietal prominence, 4
• Parieto-occipital fissure, 7
• Parsons on the pupil in middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 143
• Pathology
• of brain abscess, 251
• tumours, 210
• Paton on optic neuritis, 217, 218
• Percussion of skull in fractures of vault, 112
• Phelps
• on brain laceration, 160, 162
• bullet-wounds, 304
• middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 142
• Pia-arachnoid hæmorrhage, 159
• Pituitary tumours, 225, 243
• Plating of skull in traumatic and other defects, 198
• Pneumatoceles, 93, 108
• Position of patient in head-operations, 12
• Powell on traumatic insanity, &c., 202
• Precautions against the development of shock, 11
• Preparation of operative field, 13
• Preparatory treatment, 10
• Pringle on percussion of the skull, 112
• Prognosis
• after decompression, 243
• in brain abscess, 290
• cavernous sinus thrombosis, 290
• lateral sinus thrombosis, 290
• meningitis, 290
• Proptosis
• in basic and brain lesions, 90
• cavernous sinus thrombosis, 289
• orbital aneurysm, 206
• Protection of gaps in the skull, 196
• Pulsating exophthalmos, 205
• Puncture of the ventricles, 61, 236
• Punctured fractures, 132
• Pupillary changes in middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 142
• Radical treatment of cerebral and cerebellar tumours, 229, 237
• Reading, cortical area concerned in, 9
• Regional mortality
• in basic fractures, 133
• brain tumours, 245
• Reid’s base-line, 6
• Remote effects of head-injury, 182
• Results after operation
• on abscess of the brain, 290
• alcohol injections for tic doloreux, 316
• basic fractures, 133
• brain tumours, 245
• bullet-wounds, 304
• Gasserian ganglion removal, 323
• middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 147
• subdural hæmorrhage, 158
• traumatic epilepsy, 200
• insanity, 201
• Retinal hæmorrhages (Fleming on), 90
• Retraction of the head and neck
• in cerebellar abscess, 260
• tumours, 224
• in meningitis, 280
• Rivington on pulsating exophthalmos, 204
• Rolando, fissure of, 6
• Safety-valves in middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 96, 139
• Sarcomata
• of bone, 330
• brain, 211
• Scalp-tourniquet
• author’s, 15
• Cushing’s, 13
• Schlösser on alcohol injections for tic doloreux, 313, 316
• Sensory cortical areas, 7, 8
• Serous meningitis, 273
• Seventh nerve, involvement of in basic fractures, 102, 106
• Shaving of scalp, 10
• Shaw (Claye) on general paralysis, 203
• Sheen’s bullet-forceps, &c., 301
• Sherrington and Grünbaum on cortical areas, 7
• Shock (cerebral), 166
• Shock, precautions against, 11
• Sincipital cephaloceles, 34
• Sinus pericranii, 150
• Sinuses (air), influence on in basic fractures, 79
• Sinuses, thrombosis of, 281, 288
• Sinuses (venous), injuries of, 150
• Slow cerebration, 140
• Smell, registration of, 9
• Speech areas, 8, 163
• Stage of depression in concussion, 168, 170
• Stage of reaction in concussion, 168, 170
• Stereognosis, 9
• Sterilization of skin, 11
• Stewart (Purves) on tic doloreux, 314
• Stromeyer on sinus pericranii, 150
• Subconjunctival hæmorrhage, 89
• Subdural hæmorrhage, 150
• Summary of theories re basic fractures, 89
• Superior longitudinal sinus
• injuries of, 150
• surface-marking of, 1
• Supra-meatal triangle (Macewen), 5
• Surgical emphysema, 93, 108
• Sylvian point and fissure, 6
• Syphilomata of brain, 214
• Taste, registration of, 9
• Technique of operations on the skull and brain, 10
• Teevan on fractures of the internal table, 110
• bullet-wounds, 294
• Temperature in relation to head-injuries, 114
• Temporal crest, 4
• Temporal hæmatomata, 96
• Temporo-sphenoidal lobe
• abscess of, 256
• injuries of, 164
• tumours of, 222
• Tenth nerve, involvement of in basic fractures, 106
• Thiersch’s method of neurectomy, 308
• Third nerve, involvement of in basic fractures, 95
• Thrombosis
• of cavernous sinus, 288
• lateral sinus, 281
• Tod (Hunter)
• on abscess of the brain, 249
• aural exostoses, 329
• lateral sinus thrombosis, 283
• Traumatic
• cephalalgia, 187
• defects in the skull, 196
• epilepsy, 189, 192
• insanity, 201
• mania, 201
• neurasthenia, 185
• orbital aneurysm, 205
• Tuberculomata of the brain, 214
• Tuberculous meningitis, 275
• Tumours
• of brain, 210
• skull-bones, 325
• Twelfth nerve, involvement of in basic fractures, 107
• Urotropin
• Crowe and Cushing on the use of, 116
• routine use of, 118
• Vault
• birth-fractures of, 44
• fractures of, 109
• Venesection in cerebral compression, 119
• Ventricular puncture, 62, 236
• Ventriculo-abdominal drainage, 66
• subdural drainage, 63
• Vertigo
• in cerebellar abscess, 259
• tumours, 224
• Vilbiss (de) forceps, 25
• Visual impressions, registration of, 9
• Vorschütz’s safety-pins, 16, 17, 21
• Wagner on osteoplastic re-section of the skull, 25
• Walton on middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 143
• Weber (Parkes) on hydrocephalus, 58
• Wiesman on middle meningeal hæmorrhage, 139, 141, 147
• Writing, cortical area concerned in, 9
• X-rays
• in bullet-wounds, 294
• fractures of the skull, 112
• tumours, 228
• Yawning
• in abscess of the cerebellum, 262
• lesions of the cerebellum, 165
• Ziegler on traumatic sarcomata, 331
• Zygoma, 4