The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . f fracturesof the fourth and lifth cervical vertebrje, the bodyof the fourth liaving been broken; and that thecallus had been fractured by the second fall. (Ash-hurst.) Had there been no second accident, thisman {there is but little doubt) would have recoveredentirely from the original fractures. Mr. Hutchinson,* likewise, reports two cases, theone being that of a woman and the other that of aman, in which there was fracture of the lower cer-vical vertebriv, with partial i)aralysis, and ye
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . f fracturesof the fourth and lifth cervical vertebrje, the bodyof the fourth liaving been broken; and that thecallus had been fractured by the second fall. (Ash-hurst.) Had there been no second accident, thisman {there is but little doubt) would have recoveredentirely from the original fractures. Mr. Hutchinson,* likewise, reports two cases, theone being that of a woman and the other that of aman, in which there was fracture of the lower cer-vical vertebriv, with partial i)aralysis, and yet bothpatients recovered. Mr. Hilton has reported a case, with a wood-cut(Fig. 77(j), in which there were fractures of the fifth,sixth, and seventh cervical vertebra?, with completej)aralysis from the neck downward, and yet the |ia-tient survived in a ])aralyz(d condition for fourteenyears, ultimately jxrishing from injury of anotherpart:—John Carter, aged 21, on a Sunday morning in May. l^.3(^ fell from a tree, aboutforty feet, upon his back, or, more probably, npon his head. He was stunned to un-. Showing a vertical section of the first ninevertebra:, excepting the atlas, from Jlr. Hil-tons case, in wliicli there were fractures ofthe bodies of the fifth, sixth, and seventhcervical vertebra;, and the patient survivedfor fourteen years. The fractured vertebraeare seen to be consolidated by bone, both attheir bodies and at their arches. Fractures and Dislocations, p. I bid. * Traite dcs Maladies do la Moellc Kpiniore, t. i. * London Hospital Reports, vol. iii. pp. 347, 348. FRACTURES OF THE VERTEBRiE. 705 consciousness, and completely paralyzed up to tlie nock as to both sensation and volun-tary motion. The neck was very stift, but no irniriihirity of the vertebne couhl be per-ceived. He was treated by venesection and by cupping the back of the neck, and, usiu<;prop<r rcuicditS, a ca|»ability of moving tlic head gradually returned. The bhuhh-r wasparalyzed, atid c
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