Select cases of the disorder commonly termed the paralysis of the lower extremities / by John Jebb.

  • Jebb, John, 1736-1786.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Select cases of the disorder commonly termed the paralysis of the lower extremities / by John Jebb. 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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    of a gentleman of great medical abilities^ who attended the diffeftion*. The body being placed with the face downwards, a redlangular portion of the Ipine, containing fix or feven vertebrae, with the three that were protuberant ii| the middle, were removed by the faw; Immediately under them was lodged about half a pint of foetid difcoloured fluid, con- tained in a pouchy and in contadt with the bodies of the vertebras, which was pre^ v.ented from entering into the cavity of the .thorax by the aponeurotic expanfion cover- ing the fpine, The bodies of two of the vertebrse were feparated from the other proceffes of thofe vertebra:, and, together with the intervening cartilages, were almoii intirely diflblved into a liquid cretaceous fubftance. The vertebrir immediately con- tiguous had received but little injury^ al- though their bodies were expofcd to the fluid * Dr. Be^renbroek*