Observations on diseases of the spinal marrow / by John Abercrombie.

Date:
1817
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    raa^rrow.^*ie 11 al'vays depends on disease of the spinaJ In modern times^ood dea^h^been?^ *hehi™ °pinion-t of this snb;^ k ’ ® ,1 . been done in the investigation! tinned E 7 continental writers, among whom may bemen ■ ra ++a\u)T?k,l Lu<1:!1^ Astnic’ll Plouquet, j[ Port a J, ** Bre-J scd have treated th *' 7 7me ot,tbese writers, it must be confes-a H\the ^ ^Pothesis, or ingeniJ LTl-n observations which I am now to offer, 1 spinal marroTnarryfvfneial °Utline of the diseases of the ledge it will nerhan* T *7 preSent lmPerfect state of our Know- to the Irb dP ainPS eSt f° a[ra^e them simp1^ according tjon * 1 earances that have been observed on dissec- rpi r „ . l-—Inflammation and Suppuration. llie following remarkable case I did not see during the life Mr R aid 1 7? ^ the examination of the body, tinf oil 26y ha? been for several years hable to suppura- matter - but hi ^ /* dischar*«1 at «» *»» S matter , but he was also hable to severe attacks of pain, followed by more^p.oaa d.seharge,. The pain on these PocclsioTe^ tended over the left side of his head, and often continued for a week with much severity. In the first week of April 1817 he was confined from his usual employment by pain of his head affecting both the forehead and the occiput. He was in bed part of the day, but sat up during a considerable part of it, mrhedg ad7,tlng 5 b's appetite was bad, and his^leep dis- weVk h b T’6 WaS • ltt]e °r 110 frequency of pulse, and for a week the complaint excited little attention. About the end of t e week lie complained of the pain extending down his neck. * Alexander TYallianus de Arte Medica; lib. i. can 16 t De r.oc. affect, cap. x. v pus^cdoJnkVd! xL dC Vertebralis CoIumn3E in Morbis Dignitate; in Delect. O- DolsLUdWig’ Adversaria MedIc°-P«-actica, Vol. II. de Doloribus ad Spiham VeLlecdo' ®UXstio Medica an Morbo CoIicac ^tonum, rectius Rachialgi*, ITPlouquet, Exemplum Singularis Morbi Paralytici. '“our8 d’Anatomie Medicale, Tom. I. et IV. it J^jjaRacWalgite, cenni Patologici, in Atti dell’Accademia Italian. Tom. I. +P Delia otruttura, delle funziom, e delle Malattie. della Midolla Spinale.