Probationary essay on spina bifida / [Patrick Small Keir Newbigging].
- Newbigging, Patrick (Patrick Small Keir), 1813-1864.
- Date:
- 1834
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Probationary essay on spina bifida / [Patrick Small Keir Newbigging]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![July 28.—There at this time no involun¬ tary evacuations, although considerable pressure was made to force out the fluid ; the parietes of the sac may be about the thickness of the skin of an orange. About this time the patient left Edinburgh. Forty- five ounces and two drachms of fluid have been eva¬ cuated between the 121th April and 28th July 1814, by thirty-seven punctures or operations. The dates of the operations and quantity of fluid evacuated each time are marked in the following table, to shew the alternate increase and decrease of the secretion, —having carefully collected the fluid in a graduated glass measure at each operation. 1814. . Fluid discharged. Fluid discharged. Fluid discharged. oz. drs. oz. drs. oz. drs. April 14. 3 4 May 17. 1 0 June 25. 0 10 15. 1 0 20. 1 0 27. 010 18. 2 0 21. 0 10 30. 1 4 20. 0 4 28. 1 4 July 2. 1 0 23. 1 4 31. 1 0 6. 0 10 27. 2 0 June 3. 1 0 8. 0 10 30. 1 4 5. 1 0 11. 0 11 IV] ay 4. 1 6 9. 0 10 16. 1 4 6. 0 6 12. 0 10 19. 1 1 9. 0 4 15. 1 4 23. 1 4 11. 0 4 19. 0 10 28. 1 4 14. 0 6 22. 1 4 45 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30366471_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
