Abstract
Recent improvements in surgical technique enable surgeons to open the cranial cavity with much less danger than formerly attended operations of this class. Anesthesia, antisepsis, better instruments and more knowledge of surgical history and news, make the foundation on which this improvement rests. The art of diagnosis keeps pace with the advance in surgical methods. The general forward movement along the whole line of medicine has helped to crowd the cranial cavity with industrious investigators. The bony envelope of the brain is no longer a Chinese wall against research and discovery concerning the function and aberrations of the organs of the mind. The common cause of abscess, infection, operates on the same principle in the cranial cavity, but under different conditions from those which obtain in other parts of the body. For example, the swelling incident to an infection of the knee-joint occurs in consequence of the yielding character of
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