. Medical and surgical therapy . Fig. 53.—R-aising the scalp-flap, in the centre of which a holehas been made by the missile. wound, is thus exposed, often for a long time, andit therefore gets infected and often herniated. Toguard against these two dangers, infection and hernia,Sargent proposed the ingenious plan of looseningthe cpicranium from the scalp in such a way as toallow it to slide and to be sutured beneath the orificein the latter. The brain can thus be perfectly coveredin, and the cutaneous wound quickly is effected by two tubes which protrude S:54 worxns or rii

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. Medical and surgical therapy . Fig. 53.—R-aising the scalp-flap, in the centre of which a holehas been made by the missile. wound, is thus exposed, often for a long time, andit therefore gets infected and often herniated. Toguard against these two dangers, infection and hernia,Sargent proposed the ingenious plan of looseningthe cpicranium from the scalp in such a way as toallow it to slide and to be sutured beneath the orificein the latter. The brain can thus be perfectly coveredin, and the cutaneous wound quickly is effected by two tubes which protrude S:54 worxns or riii-: skcll. Fit;. .A.—Freeing the ei)i<;raiiiuin uu each side of the oiihce.

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