Injuries of the spine : with an analysis of nearly four hundred cases / by John Ashhurst.
- John Ashhurst
- Date:
- 1867
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![25 28 29 30 32 Age, occupa- tion, ETC. Male, aged 60. Female, aged 30. Male, aged 64. Male, aged 20. Butcher, aged 50. Female, aged 56. Mason, aged 49. Quartermas- ter of brig, aged 42. Sawyer, aged 41. Female, aged 29. Carman, aged 21. Mode op injury. Found dead in bed. No apparent cause. Fell from horseback, striking head. Suicide by hanging to bed-post. Quarter of beef fell from cart on his neck. Fell backward down stairs, striking back of neck. Fell backward down stairs, striking head on step; a bag of plaster came upon his breast. In swimming, phinged against a sail spread to keep off sharks. Plank struck him on the neck. Fell 10 or 12 feet, strik- ing chest on door. Fell, striking back of neck. Desceiption of injukt; progress of case, etc. For several years had suffered from sore throat with abscesses, but otherwise in good health. Sudden death. Dislocation of odontoid process. Seven years later, died suddenly in convulsions. Found dead next day. A diabolical luxation. Ecchymosis and crepitus at back of neck; pa- ralysis ; dyspnoea; death as from sufiFocation. Pain, thirst, constipation; paralysis, incomplete of upper extremities; head thrown forward and to right; cervical spine depressed. Head thrown forward and to right; stiff; spi- nous processes of fourth and fifth cervical ver- tebrae could not be felt, while their transverse processes were abnormally prominent. At first no paralysis, but came on afterward. Paralyzed, etc. Head thrown forward; contusion of neck; pa- ralysis. Scalp wound; paralysis; urine ropy, preceded death. Paralysis; recovered in 2}/^ months. In taking a long walk, fell again with sudden paralysis. [Cf case No. 90 of this table.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039082_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
