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.
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![Time under observation. Result. Remarks, autopsy, etc. Author. Reference. 14 days. Died. Comminuted fracture of a lum- bar vertebra. Morgagni. Op. cit. 12 or 14 weeks. Died. Meeckreuius. Morgagni, op. cit. Ibid. 8 days. Died. Cord itself divided. Bohnius. 36 houx'S. Died. Marcellus Lucius. Ibid. 4 days. Died. RecoYered. Bellinus. Fabricius Hildanus. Ibid. Op. cit. After fifteen months, pai-alysis had nearly gone. « 14 years. Relieved. Died after fourteen years; ball lodged in spinal canal; right half of cauda equina divided. Hutin. Lancet, 1849. 4}^ months. Recovered. Resumed occupation. T. Wakley. Ibid. 53^ months. Recovered. Walked, but not very well. Id. Ibid. 6 minutes. Died. Fracture of fourth lumbar ver- tebra, and laceration of aorta. Roper. Forster,Proc.Path. Soc. Lond., vol. viii. V4, hours. Died. Ball perforated stomach, jeju- num, and aorta, and lodged in body of fourth lumbar verte- bra. Shaw. Proc. Path. Soc. Lond., vol. X. Several years. Relieved. Died several j'ears afterward; fracture and dislocation back- ward and to right of second lumbar vertebra; cauda equina compressed. J. Cloquet. Maisonnabe, Jour, des Difformites, t.i. 39 days. Died. Death from exhaustion. Ined. Penn'a Hospital Record. 333 days. Relieved. Power of motion in some degree restored; deformity remained. Id. [Ash- hurst.] Ibid. Iday. Died. Died of exhaustion and internal (post-peritoneal) hemorrhage. Id. Ibid. 112 days. Recovered. Progress of case complicated by attack of mania a potu. Id. Ibid. Nearly 2 years. Recovered. Back stiff, and occasionally pain- ful. Transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. Id. [id.] Cuyler U. S. A. Hospital Record. 11*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039082_0123.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
