Severe pain in the head, entire scalp tender on pressure, especially in the left frontal region, left side upper lip swollen, bluish and discolored.
The place of whitening was apparently determined by the region of the scalp injured.
He was sent to the Salpêtrière for this ulnar nerve affection, when certain movements of his scalp were incidentally noted.
Case 66 is one with recovery from Jacksonian seizures after decompression of the upper Rolandic region, which was edematous following an (apparently very slight) scalp wound and shell-shock.
A soldier, 40, got a scalp wound but probably did not lose consciousness.
The movement was involuntary and more convulsive than the somewhat similar movements that many persons can execute with scalp and ears.
The patient remembered seeing Germans emerge from every side, remembered his fear, how he had turned about and crossed over a palisade, and then no more until he found a scalp wound being staunched by his comrades in the trench.
An exceedingly mild faradic current was then applied to the scalp for a few moments and he was then ordered to move his shoulder.
The scalp movements were quick, affecting the fronto-occipitalis muscles as well as the auricular muscles.
There was a bruise of the scalp in the right parietal region.
However, he knew he must do something, so he plucked out a few hairs from the scalp and threw them into the ascending waves.
Though war is past with them they still occasionally indulge in their War Dance and its consequent Scalp Dance.
Sometimes it seemed as though Little Brother would be killed, but finally he was able to scalp the poor water-baby and get possession of the beautiful sunshine-golden-hair.
Nothing more effectually stimulates the flow of blood to brain and scalp or promotes the elimination of waste matter and poisons from these parts than the head bath together with scalp massage.
While doing so, vigorously pinch, knead and massage the scalpwith the finger tips.
When the scalp is in good condition, it will disappear of its own accord.
The Head Bath Loss or discoloration of the hair is generally due to the lack of hair-building elements in the blood or to sluggish circulation in the scalp and a diseased condition of the hair follicles.
One wanted to tie him to a tree and all take a shot at him; another one wanted to scalp him first and then kill him; the other two were undecided.
Knowing that to stir or show any signs of life would be to bring sudden death, he lay quiet for a long time, not even daring to raise his hand to his aching head, from which the scalp had just been torn.
The warrior to whom this was addressed instantly sprung at him and separated the scalp from his head.
We could count eleven Indians lying out on the plain here and there, and some of the boys started out to scalp them, and did get the hair off several of the nearest ones.
The victorious side had danced the scalp dance, just as their elders did after the actual taking of scalps, and now all were gathered about this old man to hear the stories of their people.
Catlin said the lodges had the appearance of huge inverted kettles, above which rose spears, and scalp and medicine poles.
Her luxuriant hair, which she always wore long over her shoulders, was coveted as a scalp lock, and she came near leaving it with the red men on one of her horseback jaunts from the fort.
The trappers now rallied about Carson, and the remaining five warriors retired, without the scalp of their fallen foe.
A comrade clapped a cap upon his head to hold thescalp in place while he was carried to the hospital.
The force of it hurled him to the ground in the midst of some barbed wire entanglements that caught in his forehead and tore back his scalp to the crown.
They evidently suspected him of playing some wretched fraud upon them, and seemed half inclined to scalp the party.
Another was going to scalp such Bedouins as fell to his share, and take his bald-headed sons of the desert home with him alive for trophies.
They are content to kill and scalp their enemy, and never reserve a prisoner for the refined tortures of a lingering and cruel death.
In consequence of its conspicuous place and beautiful form, this ornament, named an aplustre, was considered emblematic of the sea, and was carried off by the victor in a naval engagement, as a standard or a scalp in more modern times.
A young man was nursing his mother, who had had her scalp completely torn off.
You see, Bill had had a scalp wound, and they put it all down to that.
So they sent out to get a large scalplock and they put it on top of Pole for hair.
Then runners were sent to all the villages, ordering the chiefs to dance the scalp dance.
After taking a scalp or two they would leave their canoes and return north across the forest.
After dinner you can scout for Hicks and if you find him, you may scalp him, but if he keeps going the way he went across that field, he'll be in Alabama to-night.
I would be glad to live in the guardhouse, if I could firstscalp Hicks.
The man who wishes to carry his scalp out of an Indian war must not take chances.
For the victory orscalp dance they must paint their faces black.
The Sun addressed Scar Face: "When your people kill enemies they should scalp them and then give a scalp dance.
Now, the Sun, the Moon, Scar Face, and Morningstar had a scalp dance while the Sun and Moon sang the praise songs in honor of Scar Face.
And that was the contused scalp wound over which I shuddered in the train.
Here and there were feathers which had fallen from the scalp locks of the men or the braids of the women.
Then they saw the bronze faces with the scalp lock above them, peering forth.
His head was thrown back as if in defiance, and above it rose a single red feather twined in the scalp lock.
From every head rose a bright feather twined in the defiant scalp lock.
Paul found in one of the lodges a dried scalp with long straight hair, but, obeying a sensitive impulse he hid it from the others, thrusting it between two folds of the birch bark.
A red blanket hung over his shoulder, and a single red feather rose aloft in the defiant scalp lock.
Further on was a feather trimmed and dyed that had fallen from a scalp lock, and beyond that, a blanket discarded as too old and ragged lay rotting.
Henry watched the tall and splendid figure, with the single small scarlet feather set in the waving scalp lock, and once more he readily acknowledged that he was a forest king, a lofty and mighty spirit, born to rule in the wilderness.
To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
Whenever a soft swelling appears over that portion of the scalp which was foremost during the birth, the curiosity of the family is aroused; but the swelling is harmless and subsides quickly.
After the scalp of the child comes into sight, the attendant is not to leave the bed-side, though she must keep "hands off" until the head has been completely expelled.
Just as the swelling of the finger disappears when the constriction is removed, so the swelling of the scalp subsides shortly after the child is born.
Thus, it was deemed more important to obtain thescalp than to kill the man.
He concluded by pointing to the scalp of the Oneida, and apparently urging the necessity of their departing speedily, and in a manner that should leave no trail.
The North American warrior caused the hair to be plucked from his whole body; a small tuft was left on the crown of his head, in order that his enemy might avail himself of it, in wrenching off the scalp in the event of his fall.
Is he a stone that goes to the bottom, or does the scalp burn his head?
As to rush, I little relish such a measure; for a scalp or two must be thrown away in the attempt.
The scalp was the only admissible trophy of victory.
Are the Mingoes upon us in earnest, or is it only one of those reptiles who hang upon the skirts of a war-party, to scalp the dead, go in, and make their boast among the squaws of the valiant deeds done on the pale faces?
As the chief rejoined them, with one hand he attached the reeking scalp of the unfortunate young Frenchman to his girdle, and with the other he replaced the knife and tomahawk that had drunk his blood.
The scalp with its lock of hair is taken home by the victor, and hung up in his tent as a trophy of war.
When a savage kills his enemy he runs his scalping knife round the dead man's head, seizes the hair with his left hand and tears the scalp off.
Every year parties of young red warriors crossed the Ohio to plunder the outlying farms, burn down the buildings, scalp the inmates, and drive off the horses.
The dark woods saw a myriad lonely fights where red warrior or white hunter fell and no friend of the fallen ever knew his fate, where his sole memorial was the scalp that hung in the smoky cabin or squalid wigwam of the victor.
It was lying on the face, pierced through the chest with an arrow which was buried to the very feathers, and the scalp torn from the bloody skull.
Rapaho as the white fell, and, striding over the prostrate body, seized with his left hand the middle lock of the trapper's long hair, and drew his knife round the head to separate the scalp from the skull.
