Volume 1

Injuries of the spine and spinal cord without apparent mechanical lesion, and nervous shock : in their surgical and medico-legal aspects / by Herbert W. Page.

Date:: 1883

Credit: Injuries of the spine and spinal cord without apparent mechanical lesion, and nervous shock : in their surgical and medico-legal aspects / by Herbert W. Page. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$CONTENTS CHAPTER I CONCUSSION OF THE SPIRAL CORD PAGE I. Gravity of injuries to the spinal cord—Supposed effect of railway collisions upon the cord—Brodie’s classification of injuries to the cord—Intraspinal haemorrhage— Cases of concussion lesion by Brodie, Abercrombie, Bell, Mayo, Boyer, Syme, Lidell—Danger of spinal cord lesions ..... 1—21 II. Analogy between concussion of brain and concussion of spinal cord — Lesions in brain concussion — Views thereon and cases of Hewett and Hutchinson—Classi- fication of concussion injuries of brain—Physical sur- roundings of brain and spinal cord—Further cases of concussion of spinal cord by Abercrombie, Hutchinson, Shaw, Gull, Mayo, Curling, Lochner, Hunter, Bastian —Conclusions .... 21—50 CHAPTER II “ CONCUSSION OF THE SPINE ” I. Mr Erichsen’s works on railway injuries—Objections to the term “ concussion of the spine ”—Mr Erichsen’s views on railway injuries—His typical case of “ concus- sion of the spine ”—Bell’s observations on the same— Danger of traumatic meningitis—Syphilitic meningitis —Cases recorded by Mr Erichsen—Remarks thereon 51—74 II. Mr Erichsen’s teaching on “ concussion of the spine ” and jar of the cord from slight or indirect injury—Analogy of the broken watch and fractured bones—Symptoms of b$