E. Milligan, Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association (1833)
“ If we contemplate the interior of a skull, we shall at once perceive that the inner table has every where penetrated as far as it could into the recesses which open on the surface of the brain. Every convolution has hollowed out its corresponding mould in the vitreous table ”
E. Milligan, Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association (1833)
“ Hence the infantile and puerile brightness of eye now gradually diminishes in splendour, because it is henceforth supplied by the waning powers of the internal carotid, while the complexion of the cheek, the volume of the face, the evolution of the teeth, the eye-brows, and the still small processes of the outer table of the skull, all sufficiently evince that the energy of the circulation has now found a new direction in the branches of the external carotid. ”
E. Milligan, Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association (1833)
“ IT is not easy to say at what date or period of science, the eminences and various inequalities on the surface of the human skull first became particular objects of attention among medical men. They could not have escaped notice after the operation of trepan, or perforation of the cranium, when its fracture, or other diseases occasioning compression of the brain, had once been introduced; for, in that operation, such inequalities greatly increase its hazard, and call for the strictest attention from the most reckless practitioners. ”
