A treatise on the injuries, diseases, and the distortions of the spine : founded on an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1826, was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons / by R.A. Stafford.

  • Stafford, R. A.
Date:
1832
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    ANOMALIES OF THE SPINE. The malformations which have been found to occur in the development of the Medulla Spinalis, are:—1st, Its total absence—2d, A total want of the nervous system—3d, A simultaneous absence of the brain and marrow—4th, An imperfection of the spinal marrow—5th, A greater or less extent of division of the spinal marrow into two halves—6th, A double formation of the spinal marrow—7th, A variety in its length and thickness—and 8th, A cen- tral cavity in its substance. Specimens of almost all these varieties are to be seen collected in our mu- seums ; and M. Ollivier*, to whose excellent work upon this subject I beg to refer the reader, has both cited cases from various authors, and related several which came under his own observation of each description. It is not my intention, however, to treat upon all the aberrations of structure which occur in the foetal spine, as this of itself, involving a question of such magnitude, would occupy at least the pages of a whole volume. I shall therefore at once pass over to the more immediate subjects which gave origin to this work:—Spina Bifida ; the Injuries, the Diseases, and the Distortions of the Spine; and the Diseases of the Medulla Spinalis. * Traite de la Moelle Epiniere.