A probationary essay on injuries of the spine : submitted, by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary Fellows.

Tytler, Thomas Bazett.

Date:: 1841

Credit: A probationary essay on injuries of the spine : submitted, by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary Fellows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$was never fully made out; this must be admitted, and possibly the case may have been one of sprain. At all events, we have an example of the manner in which general violence may affect tlie spine, usually causing injury at or near the union of the more fixed with the more moveable portions; the benefit resulting from active depletion in the early stage, and counter irritation at a more advanced period. The very slow progress of such cases is also marked; and likewise the liability to relapse, on any new cause stirring up the inflammation which we have been labouring to suppress. From frequent and careful examination of the case, my own opinion was, that it was one of simple fracture of the arch, with some displacement as to the relative position of the spinous pro- cesses, but without depression or any mechanical interference with the cord, which remained unafiected during several days. The subsequent train of symptoms was such as might be readily ac- counted for either by simple fracture or by sprain, the inflamma- tion in either case running the same course, and leading to the same results. RsrrYj$