. Railway and other accidents with relation to injury and disease of the nervous system : a book for court use . em; there is even apoor history of initial violence, wounds being unusual andnot so often found as in ordinary accidents. To the ex-perienced physician who reviews an ordinary case, theabsence of the common expressions of mental distress atthe time of the accident seem at least strange; and thereis a decided difference between the alleged incapacitatingeffects and appearance of symptoms under these circum-stances, and others in which a person sustains a muchmore grave upsetting, the


. Railway and other accidents with relation to injury and disease of the nervous system : a book for court use . em; there is even apoor history of initial violence, wounds being unusual andnot so often found as in ordinary accidents. To the ex-perienced physician who reviews an ordinary case, theabsence of the common expressions of mental distress atthe time of the accident seem at least strange; and thereis a decided difference between the alleged incapacitatingeffects and appearance of symptoms under these circum-stances, and others in which a person sustains a muchmore grave upsetting, the question of a lawsuit not aris-ing at all. Nearly all of the slowly developing casesare closely alike in railway litigation, and differ materiallyfrom those in which the exerted violence came from anordinary fall upon an icy pavement or from ones owncarriage, although it is not for a moment held thatnervous disorders may not sometimes follow theselatter. As a minimizing factor the cultivated expectant atten-tion and failure to seek proper care imply a certain re- Railway axd oiiiiiii Accidicxts. PLATE


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