Volume 1

Injuries of the spine and spinal cord without apparent mechanical lesion, and nervous shock : in their surgical and medico-legal aspects / by Herbert W. Page.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Injuries of the spine and spinal cord without apparent mechanical lesion, and nervous shock : in their surgical and medico-legal aspects / by Herbert W. Page. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    1 I No. I of j case. Sex. Age. Nature of accident. General outline of case. P it with pain in head and side. Pain in right lumbc sacral region made him walk in a stooping postui for a long time. He became very nervous, easil startled, lost appetite and flesh, and had muo hyperesthesia about the dorsal spines, and looke languid, pale, and ill. Much worry from expecte; litigation. He attempted work about eight montl after the accident. It was thought by some tha he wilfully exaggerated ! 224 M. 56 Collision at night Asleep. Much frightened and confused, but nc hurt. At work next day, but in the evening fe' “ agitation in the nerves.” Indoors four week complaining of bad sleep, loss of appetite, pain i the Back, constipation, loss of memory, irritabiliti of temper, inability to calculate, and genera! despondency. Also spoke much of creeping ser sations under the skin. Never any sign of ill-healtl Several months after the accident he affected t discover an old hydrocele and double ruptun caused, he said, by the accident. No evident whatever to support the statement 225 F., sin- gle 22 Slight collision in station Stunned by blow over right eyebrow. In bed te: days. Suffered much from pain in the head an giddiness, but more especially from hypermetropi asthenopia Ill] 226 F., sin- gle 34 Same Wound over left eyebrow bled profusely. Bruise o: left cheek. Laid up fourteen days. Subsequent! suffered much from headache, giddiness, and pal pitation. Very nervous. Much unconscious exag geration j 227 M. 30 Same as 198 Could give no account himself, but he had been tei ribly frightened, for he stood screaming near th train. Blow on right side of face, and for som months difficulty and pain in mastication. Als pain in head. Knocked up by long journey ; month after accident, and became more nervou and sleepless. Much better at time of settlement L ■ ! felt so stiff that he could give no help to others. In doors a fortnight with pain and stiffness in uppe dorsal region, where there were marks of bruises Then attempted work, which brought on pain ii the head, singing in the ears, and general nervous