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Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei.

Bologna: Hieronymus de Bendictis, 1518.

The first separate treatise on head wounds and their surgical treatment. Berengario described several types of skull fractures and grouped the resulting lesions according to their symptoms, citing the relation between location and neurological effect. The book also discussed apoplexy, meningitis and paralysis.

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Entry Number#4850.2
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/5578
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External URLtractatus-de-fractura-calve-sive-cranei

Geographic Context

Publication place: Bologna