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
Date:
[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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    accident, with pasmodic movement of the : The Doctor had the patient placed upon his back, when he v. what reli any movement of the spasms'*continued intervals. Soon after in Led he became flighty, and did not know exactly wha doing. This . ime, and the .Doctor adminii morphine, in quarter-grain doses; tl i amount taken in the thirty hours did not exceed fou experieno ;ed to hold the n the bed continuous ' came on ei mini would be a respite of half an hour, sometimes the] in a period oi minutes. ould comm mce with jerkings of the foot, si first, and in > rapidity our minul t!'. • paroxysms of pain would seize I and hip, when minutes would be agonizing. On passing off, tbe hip was ive, and ai lire would the violence of the pain. limb to be an inch and a ■ horter sd ; but as he could move the fimb at all v, '■ 1 not to make manipulations till a could be held. In o; ion withon lie unani- mous opinion The rounds at foot of the [loving at ■ by an inch I examined the h i the distance i I by Th e in the fr In 1 vomit-