Book 2 - Nathan, Amy, Madison and Ethan Berga
Book 2 - Nathan, Amy, Madison and Ethan Berga
Book 2 - Nathan, Amy, Madison and Ethan Berga
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out<br />
A. Yes, I think it would.<br />
Q. This part where the blow was received is<br />
the hard part of the skull<br />
A. Yes.<br />
Q. And does not spring much<br />
A. No.<br />
Q. And thus would not be as likely to produce<br />
a counterstroke<br />
A. No.<br />
Q. So that the great probability would<br />
be that a blow on the top of the skull, in<br />
front, sufficient to produce a fracture like<br />
that, would knock a man unconscious, just<br />
from the effects of the blow<br />
A. Yes.<br />
Q. What is the condition that produces<br />
that temporary unconsciousness<br />
A. It is a sort of concussion. Our equilibrium<br />
is destroyed by a blow being received<br />
<strong>and</strong> destroying the fluid in the canal of the<br />
ear. The will causes us to lose our equilibrium<br />
<strong>and</strong> any shock will cause that.<br />
Q. So that the falling is not so much a<br />
matter of loss of sensibility as a loss of sensibility<br />
to control the muscles<br />
A. Yes.<br />
Q. Would a case, Doctor, where a man had<br />
his skull fractured <strong>and</strong> continued about<br />
his affairs without complaint for about<br />
five hours <strong>and</strong> then died from the fracture,<br />
would that be a usual case at all<br />
107<br />
A. Such cases occur, but not very frequently.<br />
Q. I judge from what you have said would<br />
be because the hemorrhage was slow<br />
A. Yes sir, either that or the blood escapes<br />
from the fracture <strong>and</strong> the flow stops the<br />
pressure.<br />
Q. Now, this man, what would you say<br />
as to whether or not he must have experience<br />
acute pain at once after receiving that<br />
injury<br />
A. Well, I really could not say as to that.<br />
I would seem to me with that laceration<br />
there the pain must have been acute. (Last<br />
sentence is “x” out)<br />
Q. And he would have a severe headache at<br />
once<br />
A. Well, he probably would have considerable<br />
pain.<br />
Q. Well, the pain that a man would suffer<br />
from this fracture would be very much<br />
greater probably than the pain he would<br />
suffer from scalp wounds<br />
A. No, I don’t think it would.<br />
Q. You think scalp would be more painful<br />
A. Yes.<br />
Redirect<br />
Q. What time on Sunday did you get<br />
there<br />
A. About half past two, I think. A little<br />
before half past two.<br />
Q. And you learned there, I suppose, about<br />
what time the injury occurred
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