A case of fracture of the os innominatum, and death in connection with the administration of sulphuric ether : communicated to the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati / by W.H. Mussey.

  • Mussey, William Heberden, 1818-1882.
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[1861]
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Credit: A case of fracture of the os innominatum, and death in connection with the administration of sulphuric ether : communicated to the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati / by W.H. Mussey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    /YAM&&M I W • * y A CASE FRACTURE OF THE OS INNOMINATUM; AND / Death in connection with the Administration of Sulphuric Ether. [Communicated to the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati.* ] BY W. H. MUSSEY, SURGEON. On Friday, November 30, 1860, I was called to Lebanon, Ohio, to see a man who bad been injured the day previous, and reached his house at 7 p. m. In consultation with Dr. J. Vanharlingen and Dr. Robert Vanhar- lingen, I ascertained that the patient, Jacob Koogle, aged fifty years, had, thirty hours previously, been overturned in his buggy. His horse had slipped on the road and fallen ; on rising he gave a leap forward diagonally across the road, overturning the buggy, throwing Mr. Koogle upon his right side, and dragging him about thirty feet, when he rolled down a bank about eight feet ; his wife, weighing two hundred and five pounds, fell upon him, but was dragged only twenty feet, and escaped with severe but not serious contusions. Mr. Koogle weighed two hundred and thirty pounds, and was occasionally addict- ed to the intemperate use of intoxicating drinks. About ten days previous to this occasion he had a spree (the only one for a year), and had been quite sick in the recovery. When friends (who were returning from the same Thanksgiving service in Church that Mr. and Mrs. Koogle had attended,) reached Mr. K., he had raised himself on his hands and knees, but could rise no further, though he made three efforts to do so, before he was reached by his nephew, D. M. James, who, on assisting to raise him, found he had no use of the right thigh and leg. He exclaimed that his testicle was mashed,—but immediately complained of his hip joint, and suffered excruciatingly in the groin and thigh. In a half and taken to his home, one mile distant ; in the same position he was placed upon his bed, and remained so till Dr. J. Vanharlingen reached him, two and a half hours from the time the injury was received. The patient had suffered intensely from the time of the Keprinted from the Cincinnati Lancet and Observer, January, 1801,