New York Medical Journal (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1866 Excerpt: ... are touched or pinched; but he tells us that he can feel the passage of the electric current quite deeply, and as though in the bones. We hope shortly to publish some communications which we have received in reply to our request for cases illustrating the subsequent history of patients injured by blows upon the back. Meanwhile we would again draw attention to the importance of such cases being recorded, and invite further contributions. Such reports should include the kind of violence exerted, the immediate symptoms, and the after results, whether of a few months' or years' standing, By an accumulation of such histories, much light may be thrown upon a subject at present involved in obscurity, and great assistance rendered in the fair estimation of the amount of damage inflicted in cases of railway accident.--The Lancet. 4. Remarkable Repair of Extensive Injuries. On the 29th of July last we saw a boy, fourteen years old, admitted into St. Bartholomew's Hospital, whose condition seemed to hold out scarcely a hope of recovery. He had got entangled in some cordmaking machinery, and had been rolled by a revolving cylinder much as linen is pressed in a mangle. The ecchymosis was so extensive that his face was enormously swollen and of a dark purple color, the conjunctivae intensely chemosed, and the features uurecognizable. The aspect resembled that of a very bad case of scurvy, or perhaps still more, as Mr. Paget remarked, that condition of dark tumefaction which sometimes precedes the eruption in malignant variola. The boy had sustained, besides, the following injuries: oblique fracture of the left femur; separation of the epiphysis of the right femur; wound near the left elbow-joint, possibly entering it; dislocation of the right humerus into the axilla. The...