Injuries of the spine : with an analysis of nearly four hundred cases / by John Ashhurst.
- John Ashhurst
- Date:
- 1867
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Credit: Injuries of the spine : with an analysis of nearly four hundred cases / by John Ashhurst. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![Time under observation. Result. Remarks, autopsy, etc. Author. Reference. Iday. Died. Rupture of spleen. Ined. Ibid. 57 weeks. No im- prove- ment. Id. Ibid. 21 days. Died. Death from exhaustion. Id. Ibid. 68 days. Recovered. Slight deformity remained. Id. [Ash- hurst.] Ibid. 126 days. No im- prove- ment. Deformity remained. Id. Ibid. Iday. No im- prove- ment. Removed by friends. No pa- ralysis while in hospital. Id. Ibid. 7 days. Died. Bodies of twelfth dorsal and first lumbar vertebrae project- ed forward more than one inch; pi'ocesses broken; cord torn; diaphragm lacerated. Dupuytren. Op. cit. 23 days. Died. Dislocation, with slight frac- ture, of twelfth dorsal verte- bra; fracture of first lumbar; secondary deposits in both knee-joints. C. Hawkins. Holmes, P r o c. Path.Soc.Lond., vol. X. Several months. Recovered. Reduction by extension and counter-extension under chlo- roform ; audible sound; when discharged could walk with cane. Graves. Parker, N. Y. Jour. Medicine, 1852. 3 weeks. Recovered. Reduction by position (on belly); extension and pressure con- tinued for fifteen days. Rudiger. Desault, Jour, de Chir., t. iii. 3 years. Not im- proved. Pursued occupation of portrait painter while lying on aide. Swan. Bost. Med. Jour., vol. xxii. 3 days. Died. Splinter from first lumbar ver- tebra had divided cord. D. S. Conant. Am. Med. Times, 1861. 16 days. Died. Brain watery; fractures of twelfth dorsal, and first, sec- ond, and third lumbar verte- bra3; no displacement; cord unhurt. Bryant. Loc. cit.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039082_0117.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
