Reports of Cases Under the Workmen's Compensation ACT 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. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...in a compound fracture and cut of the right wrist. He was taken to the Union Hospital for treatment. The injured man had been receiving compensation for said injury up to and including Feb. 24, 1913, at the rate of $6 per week, being half his average weekly wage agreed upon at the time of the injury. At this time the insurance company ceased the payments, claiming that the man was then able to resume his usual employment, and that he was feigning. The case went to arbitration, Silva claiming that he was still unable to work, and also that the average weekly wage as agreed upon was not correct. Dr. J. P. Jackson testified that the injured man's arm was paralyzed as the result of injury to the median nerve. Dr. Swift of the Union Hospital differed somewhat from Dr. Jackson, and though he would not say that the injured man was feigning, he claimed that the condition of the arm was partly due to the injured man not using it and not adopting the treatment prescribed for him. Dr. Swift suggested that he be sent to Daniel J. Fennelly, M.D., neurologist at the Union Hospital and an expert on nerve diseases. The committee decided to have him examined as requested. Later, Dr. Fennelly made his report to the Board, describing the case at great length, concluding with the following summary: --Diagnosis.--Injury of upper tracheal plexus involving; ante thoracic, post thoracic, circumflex involving; median muscle spiral or radial. Probable cause, stretch or injury of nerves in shoulder at time of accident, not due to fracture of arm or cutting of nerve at point of fracture. Prognosis.--The condition has been getting slowly a little better and will improve somewhat more, but it is a matter of six months or more; in other words, it is an indefinite thing. It is, ...