Clinical surgeryExtracts from the reports of surgical practice between the years 1860-1876Translated from the original, and edited, with annotations, by CTDent . er applications to the painful parts. Very shortly after the fall, accoiding to the patients account, the move-ments of the arms began to be more and more restricted, and in the course ofsome years the condition which existed on admission gradually developed(see Fig. 13). At first he was able to work in a manufactory, but eventuallythe limited movements of his arms prevented him from doing any work, sothat for many years before admiss
Clinical surgeryExtracts from the reports of surgical practice between the years 1860-1876Translated from the original, and edited, with annotations, by CTDent . er applications to the painful parts. Very shortly after the fall, accoiding to the patients account, the move-ments of the arms began to be more and more restricted, and in the course ofsome years the condition which existed on admission gradually developed(see Fig. 13). At first he was able to work in a manufactory, but eventuallythe limited movements of his arms prevented him from doing any work, sothat for many years before admission he had been without any calling. It * Trom a dissertation by Dr Zollinger, Zurich, 1867. 198 OSSIFICATION OF THE FASCIA OF THE BACK. seemed possible that his condition was due to a previously existing diathesis,and tliat the injury, wliich apparently was not of a very serious nature, wasbut the exciting cause. If so, the case was analogous to those recorded byV. Testelin and Danbressi. The statements of the patient in such amatter, of coui-se could not be unreservedly accepted, inasmuch as the disease Fig. 13.—Ossification of the Fascia of the originated at such an early period of life that one could hardly expect theman to remember the minute symptoms of his complaint very distinctly. Upto three yeai-s before admission his health had been good; he then, however,was attacked by some severe illness, which confined him to bed for fourweeks. The disease was marked by symptoms of severe fever, great pain on OSSIFICATION OP THE FASCIA OP THE BACK. 199 both sides of the thorax, cough, dyspnoea and delirium. His medicalattendant pronounced the affection to be inflammation of the lungs and ofthe brain. Probably, however, it was a case of severe pneumonia, with theso-called nervous symi^toms. Complete recovery gradually followed, withthe single exception that during convalescence the vision of his left eyebecame affected, and in a few days was completely lost, a most remark
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