The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . ed into UniversityHospital, at New Orleans. There was no paralysis. The symptoms of pyaemia, however,supervened, and he died of that disease on the 18th. Necroscopy revealed a roundiron ball, about one inch in diameter, lodged on the left psoas magnus muscle. Thespinous processes and laminaj of the last dorsal and first lumbar vertebra; were frac-tured and displaced, and thus the spinal canal was laid open. The specimen is repre-sented by the accompanying wood-cut (Fig. 787). Purulent infi
The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery . ed into UniversityHospital, at New Orleans. There was no paralysis. The symptoms of pyaemia, however,supervened, and he died of that disease on the 18th. Necroscopy revealed a roundiron ball, about one inch in diameter, lodged on the left psoas magnus muscle. Thespinous processes and laminaj of the last dorsal and first lumbar vertebra; were frac-tured and displaced, and thus the spinal canal was laid open. The specimen is repre-sented by the accompanying wood-cut (Fig. 787). Purulent infiltration was found in the psoas muscles, with their investments, andFig. 787. in the peritoneal cavity. Two small circum- scribed metastatic abscesses were found in therisfht lobe of the liver. There were no signsof paralysis present during life.* A sergeant of infantry was wounded at\ Opequon Creek, near Winchester, Ya., Sep- ^ Fig. 7?8. Showing a pistol-ball (calibre 37) lodgedin the body of the last dorsal vertebra, hav-ing fractured the same with much commi-nution. (Spec. 3780, Sect. 1, A. M. M.).
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