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. Kesult. Remarks, autopsy, etc. Author. Reference. 60 hours. Died. Congestion of brain and lungs; fractures of body of fourth lumbar, and of processes of twelfth dorsal and all lumbar vertebrte; fractured rib; cord unaltered. Id. [Ash- hurst.] Episcopal Hospital Record. Several Not im- proved. Td. [id.] Ibid. months. Several Not im- proved. Id. [id.] Ibid. months. Few hours. Died. Spinal cord involved. Bintot. Memoires de Med. Militaires, 3d S., t. xvi. 5 months. Not im- proved. Paralysis remained, and urine passed involuntarily through rectum. Lancet, 1866. Several years. Relieved. Vertebral column anchylosed nearly at a right angle. Begin. Op. cit. Several months. Recovered. Paralysis gradually disappeared. J. Cloquet. Dict.de Med., t.ix. Several months. Recovered. Paralysis gradually disappeared. Id. Ibid. 2 years. Recovered. Able to walk; paralysis of blad- der and rectum, and loss of sensibility. Id. Ibid. Few hours. Died. Two vertebrse separated from intervertebral substance; frac- tures of ribs and pelvis; lacera- tions of liver, kidney, and pan- creas. B. B. Cooper. Guy's Hospital Re- ports, 2d S., vol. Recovered. Quickly recovered without any particular attention. Deform- ity remained. A. Cooper. Disloc. and Fract. of Joints. Several years. Relieved. Paralysis remained; had regain- ed power over bladder and rec- tum. A fistula led to vertebrae which were carious. Fabricius Hildanus. Op. cit. 77 days. Recovered. Ined. Penn'a Hosp. Re- cord. 21 days. Died. Id. Ibid. Recovered. After two years Hildanus ex- tracted the fragment of blade. Fabricius Hildanus. Op. cit. 3 days. Died. Tulpius. Obs. Med., Lugd. Bat., 1716.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039082_0125.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
