Medical evidence in railway accidents / by John Charles Hall.

  • John Charles Hall
Date:
1868
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Credit: Medical evidence in railway accidents / by John Charles Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    left—In. vision not having in the slightest degree suffered. Cvse XIV. Mr. . nt. iged 12, Dtomber, 1857, was in a railway collision. Severe blow ou back of head; side bruised ; , and nos. ; insensible f r h:\lf an hour. Win n he recovered, noticed dimness of vision in I. ft r\e, with pain in the head. Alt*t two or thr. r w,u.. the dimness of vision im- ♦'d in tie L it rye, tl imed with a prismatic halo around ubp , ! |,\,, months from this time right eye aO < t 1 aU>; m r.nr months In was quite blind; MihVnd ^\t re pain in tie h, ;h|, with tremor, wasting, und >iur lo>s uf power over the limbs. 1 s*>d. Si\ \. n > aft. r the aceid. nt ; blind of both <; Lvmral health good ; can walk well; no par m« m u s and lie nt d fa< ultii i boalthy, This east-, takt-n hum the work of Dr. I I.teher, is instrnetive, as showing that IV.-m thr r.enpt of the blow on tie- le ad thnv wnv symptoms indicative of injury to tie' brain immediate insensibility after the a.vid. nt, and continuing fur sunn- tmir ; bleeding from tie- ie»-.■ and . irs ; impair, d \isiun a progressive change from had to worse, and ending in permanent loss of light* <Ws l, 2, •*'.. I. f>, «.), and 1 I clearly prove what pathology had previously tuelit lis to . \p. et, namely, that injury to the brain and spinal chord is immediately followed by objective symptom > pathognomonic of such injury.