The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . ownin the adjoining wood-cut (Fig. 783). A soldier, aged 2G, was wounded at Cold Harbor, Va.,June 3, 18(5-1, by a conoidal musket-ball, which penetratedthe right side of his back, shattered the right transverse andarticular processes of the eighth and ninth dorsal vertebrae,and entered the spinal canal. He immediately lost all sen-sation and voluntary motion below the wound. On the 11th,he was admitted to general hospital. There was then psy-chical depression, with slow pulse, labored resp
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . ownin the adjoining wood-cut (Fig. 783). A soldier, aged 2G, was wounded at Cold Harbor, Va.,June 3, 18(5-1, by a conoidal musket-ball, which penetratedthe right side of his back, shattered the right transverse andarticular processes of the eighth and ninth dorsal vertebrae,and entered the spinal canal. He immediately lost all sen-sation and voluntary motion below the wound. On the 11th,he was admitted to general hospital. There was then psy-chical depression, with slow pulse, labored respiration, cold,clammy, and cyanosed skin, and involuntary passage of theexcretions. Gastric irritability supervened, with rejectionof all kinds of nourishment, and he died on July 2. Necros-copy revealed the missile imbedded in the spinal canal, as siiown in Fig. 784. The spinal cord was severed and disorganized above and belowthe missile.^ Corporal G. W. M,, aged 19, was wounded at Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864, andadmitted to general hospital on the 7th. He was suffering from paraplegia with reten-. Showing the fifth, sixth,seventh, and eighth dorsal ver-tebrae, with the body, etc., ofthe fifth horizontally divided,and a conoidal tnasket-ball(also divided) lodged iu the spi-nal canal. (Spec, 39S4, Sect. I,A. M. M.) Fig. 784. Fig.
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