Blood-poisoning

Date:
1876
Reference:
MS.1456
Part of:
Cantlie, Sir James, F.R.C.S. (1851-1926)
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Description

A case of blood-poisoning developing as an axillary abscess, and followed by paralysis of Serratus magnus. Author's holograph MS. London In this MS. the author described his own illness, which he had contracted in the dissecting room at the Charing Cross Hospital. As a result he was left with a permanently weakened shoulder. [Cf. Cantlie (N.) & Seaver (G.) `Sir James Cantlie.' 1939, pp. 16,17. In later entries this work is cited as `Biography']

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1876

Physical description

34 ff. folio. 32x201/2 cm. Unbound

Acquisition note

Presented 1931.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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  • 89186