A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / by Adolph Wilhelm Otto ; tr. from the German, with additional notes and references by John F. South.

  • Otto, Adolph Wilhelm, 1786-1845.
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1831
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    (1) Called also Rhachialgia, Rhachialgitis, Spin'itis, NotaeomyeUtis, &c.; and perhaps most significantly Rhachiomyelitis. v. Galenus Delocis affect. Cap. VI.— /4Uen Synopsis univ. Med. Part I. p. 165.—J. P. Frank Oratio de vertebralis columnoB in morbis dignitate. Paviae, 1791, and De curand. horn, morbis. L. II. § 141, ff. p. 48.—Haefner D, de inflammatione medullae spinalis. Marburg, 1799.—Bergamaschi Osserv. suUa inflammazione della spinale midoUa, &c. 4to. Pavia, 1810.—Brera Delia Rachialgite cenni patologici in Atti dell' Acadeniia Italiana di Scienze, Lit e Art., Vol. I. Parti, p. 246, Livorno, 1810; and Brcra and Harles, Ueber die Entziindung des R. M., from the 2d Vol. of Maries's Jahrb. de Med. und Chir. abgedruckt. Niirnb. 1814.—A'^zW Sur le Spinitis in Corvisart's Journ. de Medec. 1812.—Spangetiberg in Horn's Archiv f. med. Erfahrung. 1813, p. 4.—Macari in Annales de la Soc. de Medec. de Montpellier, Vol. XX. p. 5.—Rotiander in S%cnska Lakare-Sallskapets Handlingar. Vol. VI. p. 224, (a case of inflammation of the brain and spinal cord in a man.)—Funk Die Riickenmarksentziindung, inaugural Treatise, 2d edit. 8vo. Bamberg, 1819, with additions. Bamberg, 1825.—Klohs D. de myelitide, Hakne, 1820.— Clot Re- cherches et Observations sur le Spinitis, Montpellier, 1820.—Pinel in Masendie's Journal de Physiologie, Vol. I. No. I. p. 54.—Nyblcius in Abhandl. der K. Schwed. Akademie, Jahrg. 1822, Part II. t^. Si3.~Son?ienkalb in der Dresdner Zeitschrift fur Natur-und Heilkunde, 1823, Vol. III. Part I. p. 65—110.—Z. fFo//Beobach- tung einer chronischen Entziindung des R. M. mit ungewbhnlichem Ausgange, nebst Bemerkungen dariiber. Hamburg, 1824.—Friederich D. de myelitide. 8vo. Berol. 1825.—Graf De Myelitidis Nosographia. 4to, Regiom, 1823, (with two cases of his own.)—Machiewitz Observationes de rachialgitide, pneumoniam et praesertim pleuritidem dorsalem mentiente in Comment. Soc. phys. med. Mos- quens, Vol. III. Part II. p. 158, Mosquoe, 1825, (three cases.)—A case of in- flammation of the spinal marrow, with enlargement and softening from rupture of four nerves of the brachial plexus, is described by Flaubert in Repert. gen. d'Anat. et de Physiol, pathologiques, Vol. III. Part 1. p. 102, ff., 1827.—Gassaud in Journal univ. des Scienc. medic. April, 1828.—Compare also Reydellet in Diction, des Scienc. medical. Vol. XXXIII. p. 538, Rachetti, Ollivier and Abercromhie- (2)1 have twice seen tliis in the cervial region of old persons : in one case the blood was in little spots in the spinal marrow ; in the other, in a spot where the marrow was softened and torn, a lump of blood was formed almost as big as a pea; in both cases there was also effusion of blood between the membranes, and the vertebral veins very much expanded.—Home, in Phil. Trans. 1814, found blood effused within the spinal marrow from external injury.—Ollivier, p. 241.—Jones saw great injection of the surface of the spinal marrow with diminished sensation. V. Edinb. med. and surg, Journ. Vol. XXI, p. 81 and 83. (3) Chaussier, Girard (in oxen and sheep.) Ollivier, p. 375, in the latter. I myself have seen, in a few cases of typhus, tlie pia mater and adjacent spinal cord strongly injected ; similar cases are also described by Brera and Rachetti. (4) I have seen this very distinctly in a person aged twenty-two years, who died of malignant small-pox. (5) Matthey in Journ. gen. de Med. Vol. XLIV. p. 279.—Johnson in London med. chir. Journal and Review, October, 1827.—Clot.—Trolliet Nouv. Traitc de rage, etc. v. Ollivier, p. 373.—Meniere in Archiv. gdnC'ral. de M^dec. Decemb. 1828.—In oxen and horses, Dupuy and Barthelemy. (6) Astruc and Sauvages were previously of this opinion, which has been con- firincd by recent observations, v. B. Palais Trait6 pratique sur la coli(iuc metal- ]i(pK', etc. Paris, 1825, and Renauidin in Journ. Compl. du Diet, des Scienc. Med. Vol. XXII. p. 247. (7) Tlie older writers, for instance, Fr. ILijfmanu, had already derived convulsions from diseases of the spinal marrow, and Harks mentions an epilepsia s])inalis.— Purhelt also Die individuelle constitution inul ilir l^influss auf die Entstchung unddcncharakter der Krankheiton, Leij)/. lS23,an epilepsy of the spinal m.'U-row.— Esr/tiirol, V, Leroux Journ, do Medec. 1817, \'ol. XXXIX. p. 424, frequently found the spinal marrow in a state of irritation iti epileptic persons. Swan also found the spinal membranes inflamed in a child who died of convulsions, and adherent