Railway accidents or collisions : their effects upon the nervous system : the substance of a paper read before the Harveian Medical Society / by William Camps.

  • Camps, William.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Railway accidents or collisions : their effects upon the nervous system : the substance of a paper read before the Harveian Medical Society / by William Camps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    in some degree, to lessen the rate of mortality of my fellow countrymen, from Eailway Accidents or Collisions ; as well as to diminish the amount of human suffering arising from such accidents, by inducing the adoption of more efficient measures of caution and foresight on the part of the Eailway authorities and officials. The heavy money penalties the various companies incur, ought for the sake of shareholders, to secure the adoption of such measures as should render accidents and collisions with their distressing consequences less frequent and disastrous. Secondly, a strong desire on my part, to draw the careful and patient attention of members of my own profession, to symptoms consequent upon the receipt of injuries from Eailway Accidents or Collisions; which, in most, if not in all cases, we, as patho- logists, as well medical as' surgical, must regard as amongst the effects of such injuries, either immediate, progressive, or remote. And thirdly, the attempt on my part, to establish a becoming relation between, not only the members of my own profession with each other, but also, a corresponding relation between the members of the two honourable professions—namely, that of Law and of Medicine. In conclusion, I may be permitted to state, that I hope in no very long time hence, to extend this present brief communica- tion on a most important subject; and also, at some future period, to take up the second portion of my paper as originally announced—namely, the effects of other accidents attended xoith violence, upon the nervous system, whether observed as imme- diate, progressive, or remote, in the order of their occun'ence in unfortunate sufferers. Park street, Grosvenor square, W., 1866. LONDON : PniNTEll BY w'OOWAN AND DAKKS, CHEAT WINDMILL STItEET, W.