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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Case of a fracture in the scull [sic]' by William Cheselden</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Cheselden describes a case of a schoolgirl who sustained a head injury whilst playing by a river. Cheselden found that she had a fracture across the os bregmatis [parietal bone] and trephined her skull on three occasions. She recovered successfully.

Subject: Surgery

Read to the Royal Society on 18 January 1721 [1722].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1721]</dc:date>
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