Probationary essay on spina bifida / [Patrick Small Keir Newbigging].

  • Newbigging, Patrick (Patrick Small Keir), 1813-1864.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Probationary essay on spina bifida / [Patrick Small Keir Newbigging]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    September 31, 1816.—The mother called upon Mr. Young with the child, and stated that she had been in London, and applied for advice at some of the hospitals there. The child creeps through the house; cannot walk, but can stand with a lean against a chair. The tumor at this time was hard ; the cavity of it appeared to be completely obliterated ; measured five inches and a half round the base, and six inches round the middle ; three inches long in the course of the lumbar vertebrae, and two inches and a half from side to side. January 30, 1817.—Mr. Young saw the child at this time with Mr. Lizars, who obtained a cast of the tumor. The child has involuntary evacuations, supposed to be owing to the weight of the clothes pressing on the tumour on the sacral nerves, or it might be an effect of teething. It w’as proposed to have a shield fitted so as to keep off the pressure of the clothes. Mr. Young had no opportunity of see¬ ing the case after this, and was lately informed by the midwife who attended, that the child died some¬ time in the summer of 1821, being then aged about seven years. July 9, 1814.—Mr. Young was called to visit a child in the Canongate within twenty-four hours after it was born. An elastic transparent tumor of
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