Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 657.5

JAMES YONGE (1647-1721) Wounds of the brain proved curable : not only by the opinion and experience of many (the best) authors, but the remarkable history of a child four years old cured of two very large depressions, with the loss of a great part of the skull, a portion of the brain also issuing thorough a penetrating wound of the dura and pia mater. Printed by J.M. for Henry Faithorn and John Kersey, at the Rose in St. Paul's Churchyard 1682 [20], 132 p. 16 cm.

Yonge was a surgeon in Plymouth, England. He was an influential member of the town’s common council and eventually became mayor of Plymouth. Wounds of the Brain Proved Curable was his third and final publication.

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Cited references: Waller, 10434; Krivatsy, 13176