So-called 'concussion of the spine' in railway injuries / by John G. Johnson.

  • Johnson, John George.
Date:
[1883?]
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Credit: So-called 'concussion of the spine' in railway injuries / by John G. Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    inal assault upon her and of accomplishing his purpose. The case was dismissed in consequence of the groom coming for- ward and stating that he frequently had had connection with her during the time she was in the master’s service.” Mr. Ericlisen did not rest easy under these severe lashings. In a letter to the British Medical Journal he attempts to break the force of the criticism, by saying the title was put on the book by the publisher or printer without his knowledge. Mr. Charles Wilkins, Mr. Erichsen’s lawyer, demanded of Mr. Syme, Mr. Dunsmure and others retractions of their allega- tions. They replied, proving their original statements, and published the correspondence in the Lancet and other med- ical journals. As might be expected, these severe criticisms concentrated public attention on Mr. Erichsen’s work, and the success of his specialty was secured. He comes out with a new edition, containing more cases, all written up in a popular style, with symptoms that patients themselves can understand and use. He had made two parties and had got one—that was the public. His book run through large editions; was published on the Continent and in America; translated into German and other languages, and the Rail- way Spine took its place thenceforth in the public mind as one of the expected events of raihvay travel. Mr. Erichsen endeavors to sustain his view of the concus- sion of the spinal cord from the well-known effects of concus- sion of the brain, but the analogy is not good, because the surroundings of each organ is entirely different. The brain is a large, soft mass, closely surrounded with its membranes, in direct contact in every part of its surface with the skull, abundantly supplied both on its surface and interior with blood vessels that may easily be ruptured, and it receives the