The Chyrurgeons store-house furnished with forty-three tables cut in brass, in which are all sorts of instruments ... useful to the performance of all manual operations ... together with a hundred choise observations of famous cures performed : with three indexes 1. of the instruments, 2. of cures performed, and 3. of things remarkable / written by Johannes Scultetus ; and faithfully Englished by E.B.

OBSERVATION XXXVIII. Of a Capillary penetrating Fissure on the Head, Cured both in a Boy, and in a man.

IN the Year 1644. a Cart with two Horses empty ran over David Heilbrou••er, and hurt the Synciput on the left side, leaving the Bone bare, and causing a Fissure on the Skull; which being observ∣ed, and shown to the Parents, Ezekiel Vogel a Chyrurgion dilated the Wound, applying a Stupe, dipped in an Astringent, whereby the re∣quisite scraping of the Skull might be safely performed. The next morning, being sent for, I found the Skull freed from the Peri∣cranium, and fractured with a doubtful Fissure; and being provided with Scraping-Irons, I presently scraped down the Fissure below the space between the two Tables, where I perceived the inward Table of the Skull to have only a capillary Fissure: whereupon, removing the Scraping-Irons, I dressed the Wound, and the Bone, with my accustomed Dressings, and happily restored the Boy in the space of 24 days: who, without the use of the Scraping-Irons, as frequent Experience testifieth, might have perished. The reason why I did not Perforate the Skull, may be seen in my Discourse upon a Capil∣lary, and Penetrating Fissure of the Skull, Tab. XXXI.

In the same manner I restored John George Hornung, who on the 28th of December, 1635. received a Wound on the Temporal Muscle, with a penetrating Fissure of the Skull, but Capillary.