& ad nervos detrudatur, caecitas ab obstructione ner∣vorum opticorum & convulsiones, sequuntur.
A little lad, ten yeers of age, in St. Saviours Parish, receiving a blow on his head, fell into a sudden consternation, insomuch that he became, as it were, altogether dumb, speechless, and likewise altogether deprived of motion, only he opened his eyes; Mr. Crop, an experienced Chirurgion (now deceased) and I, being sent for about two of the clock in the afternoon, we finde him more∣over infested and afflicted with vomiting, by con∣sent of the stomack, and in an acute fever; all which considered, we concluded he would die in a very short time, and so accordingly it fell out; for about the third day following he departed this life.
Etiam memini Dominum Hamond, Scarnicensem, violentissima commotione cerebri mortuum fuisse. For falling from an high place, the passages of his brain were so smitten, and the Vessels so broken, that there happened not only an Aphony or loss of Speech, with deprivation of motion, but also a pouring forth of blood by his mouth, ears and nostrils, and that in great abundance. I being sent for some few hours before he died, could feel no motion of any Pulse, save only about the heart, I felt a small pulsation. Half an hour before he died he was taken with Singultus.
Plura de Cerebri commotione vide in Paraeo, lib. 10. cap. 9. where many Histories are inserted touching this most perillous disease, of which ve∣ry few escape or recover.