Note 772 — ON INJURIES OF THE HEAD.

Sir Astley Cooper mentions an instance in which 208 ounces of blood were abstracted from a patient!! In Quesnay’s Memoir there is nothing more common than to find it reported that he had bled a patient three or four times in the course of a day. In one case 160 ounces were taken in nine days; “but,” it is gravely added, “two years elapsed before she was quite well again.”