Maryland medical journal . - of the eighth dorsal vertebra. Be-lieving there was a complete division of the spinal cord, and havingin memory the cases of Stewart and Fowler. I determined to ex-plore the spinal canal and suture the cord if it was found to be justi-. X-ray picture showing bullet in or al>out the body of the eighth dorsal vertebra. fiable. Accordingly, three days later I did a laminectomy, removingthe laminae of the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth dor-al vertebiThere was no blood in the canal, and the dura was uninjured, norwas the bullet discovered. The dura was widely opene
Maryland medical journal . - of the eighth dorsal vertebra. Be-lieving there was a complete division of the spinal cord, and havingin memory the cases of Stewart and Fowler. I determined to ex-plore the spinal canal and suture the cord if it was found to be justi-. X-ray picture showing bullet in or al>out the body of the eighth dorsal vertebra. fiable. Accordingly, three days later I did a laminectomy, removingthe laminae of the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth dor-al vertebiThere was no blood in the canal, and the dura was uninjured, norwas the bullet discovered. The dura was widely opened, permit-ting the escape of a large quantity of cerebro-spinal fluid. The cordnot severed, nor did it appear to be altered, but subsequentlysome grumous material escaped from the cord. A- the cordnot divided, or its continuity apparently destroyed, there was noth- DESTRUCTION OF SPINAL CORD—Winslow ing to suture, and the wound was closed. The patient was not im-proved, but neither was he made worse by the exploration, as hiswound healed per priman. He continued, however, to have fever,became bedsores formed, but he is still living at thiswriting. Case II.—On May J. 1884, the following- case of gunshot of thespine was admitted to Universi
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