Volume 1

Catalogue of the Pathological Museum of St. George's Hospital / edited by John W. Ogle and Timothy Holmes.

  • St George's Hospital (London, England). Pathological Museum.
Date:
1866
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    The posterior common ligament is entire. The spinal marrow Avas crusbeil and the lungs gorged. The sternum was also fractured. This preparation was taken from the body of Henry B., aged 24, who fell about tAventy feet from a loft upon his liead and shoulders, bending the body backwards. There was paralysis of motion and sensation of all j)arts below the shoulders, and in great measure of the arms also, especially on the left side. There was priapism. Pulse, from 56 to 44. He lived from January 23rd, 1842, to the 28th, respiration getting by degrees more laboured. The fractured sternum is preserved in this Series, No. 61, and the spinal marrow in a subsequent Series. Presented by CiESAii Hawkins, Esq. 42. Complete separation of the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrte from each other. The ligamenta subflava are torn through, and the contiguous articulating processes of those vertebrte exposed and separated from one another. The inter-articular disc between the bodies of the vertebra is lacerated, and the anterior and posterior common ligaments torn completely across. The lateral ligaments are entire. The dura mater was found torn in the situation of the injury behind, and the central part of the cord lacerated, soft, and infiltrated with much recently extravasated blood. The body of the fifth cervical vertebra was displaced forwards, in front of that of the sixth, so that the posterior edge of the latter encroached upon the spinal canal. This preparation was taken from the body of William P., aged 33, who was admitted into the Hos- pital on September 26th, 1853, having,r. a. short time pre- viously, fallen head-first a height of about fourteen feet. There were all the usual symptoms of fracture of the spine high up ;—complete loss of motion and sensation in all the extremities and in the trunk; the bladder was paralysed, and there was priapism. The temperature of the body was natural. In the evening of the following day, the breathing became rapidly oppressed, and there was some diffi- culty in swallowing. He died on the morning of the 28th. Post Mortem and Case Book. 1853. P- ^99' 43- Dislocation of tlie last dorsal from the first lumbar vertebra. The intervertebral cartilage is torn through, and the articular processes arc dislocated. No fracture exists which could occasion displacement, but the transverse processes have been fractured, proljably as a consequence of the displacement. The dislocation was reduced during life, but without any elfect upon the symptoms. In preparing the parts, the vcrtebrjc (whicli Avere freely moveable on each other) were replaced as nearly as possible in the position which they occupied after the accident. The patient, a man twenty-nine years of age, survived the accident thirty-three days, and died of pysemia.