d lay down; he soon became semi-comatose, in which condition he
remained for some days; but, after operation, he made complete recovery.

Loss of Brain-substance from Cerebral Tumor.--Koser is accredited with
reporting results of a postmortem held on a young man of twenty who
suffered from a cerebral tumor of considerable duration. It was stated
that, although there was a cavity in the brain at least five inches in
length, the patient, almost up to the time of death, was possessed of
the senses of touch, taste, hearing, and smell, showed considerable
control over his locomotor muscles, and could talk. In fact, he was
practically discommoded in no other way than by loss of vision, caused
by pressure on the optic centers. It was also stated that the retention
of memory was remarkable, and, up to within two weeks of his death, the
patient was able to memorize poems. The amount of involvement
discovered postmortem in cases similar to the preceding is astonishing.
At a recent pathologic display in London several remarkable specimens
were shown.

Extensive Fractures of the Skull. Jennings mentions an instance of
extensive fracture of the skull, 14 pieces of the cranium being found.
The patient lived five weeks and two days after the injury, the
immediate cause of death being edema of the lungs. His language was
incoherent and full of oaths. Belloste, in his "Hospital Surgeon,"
states that he had under has care a most dreadful case of a girl of
eleven or twelve years, who received 18 or 19 cutlass wounds of the
head, each so violent as to chip out pieces of bone; but,
notwithstanding her severe injuries, she made recovery. At the
Emergency Hospital in Washington, D.C., there was received a negress
with at least six gaping wounds of the head, in some cases denuding the
periosteum and cutting the cranium. During a debauch the night before
she had been engaged in a quarrel with a negro with whom she lived, and
was struck by him several times on the head with an axe. She lay all
night unconscious, and was discovered the next morning with her hair
and clothes and the floor on which she lay drenched with blood. The
ambulance was summoned to take her to the morgue, but on the arrival of
the police it was seen that feeble signs of life still existed. On
admission to the hospital she was semi-comatose, almost pulseless,
cold, and exhibiting all the signs of extreme hemorrhage and shock. Her
head was cleaned up, but her condition wou