SECOND DIVISION.
��SERIES XX. BONES.
I. FRACTURES.
938-9. Longitudinal section of six dorsal vertebrae, showing a fracture of the body of the fourth or fifth. The upper edge is broken off, and perhaps all around, and lies now rather in front of the body, as in No. 140 in the Med. Soc.'s Museum ; thus allowing a backward displacement of the body. The thickness of this last is very much di- minished, but, as it would appear, rather by an absorption than by a crushing down of the cancelli ; and the same change seems to be going on in the body of the vertebra below. Antero-posterior curvature moderate. A dry specimen.
The other half of the same, in spirit ; to show the spinal marrow and membranes, which, so far as appeared exter- nally, were quite uninjured.
From a woman, set. twenty-five years, who fell 15 ft., and seventeen days afterwards entered the Hospital (114, 82). Lower extremities paralyzed, and sensibility diminished. Pain passing up leg on pinching left instep ; with the feel- ing as of an electrical shock when ice was applied to right foot and leg. Dej. involuntary, and catheter regularly required. Sank, with bed-sores and diarrhoea, and died rather less than nine weeks after the accident. 1864.
Dr. R. M. Hodges.
940. Fracture of the spine.
The patient was a sailor, twenty-four years of age, who fell 50 ft. on board of a vessel, and lived nearly seven weeks after the accident, under the care of Dr. G., at the Marine Hospital.
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