Nicolo Massa: Epistolae Medicinales (1558)
Since the doctors declared that they had seen no bone [in the wound], I concluded that the reason of the loss of voice was that part of the bone was lodged in the brain.
I took an instrument from a certain surgeon who was in attendance and extracted the bone from the wound, whereupon the patient began to speak at once, saying, “Praise God, I am cured.”
This drew much applause from the doctors, nobles and attendants who were present. [Benton & Joynt, 1960, p. 208]