Injuries of the Spine

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Excerpt from Injuries of the Spine: With an Analysis of Nearly Four Hundred Cases But there are several points in the pathology and treatment of injuries of the spine which are yet un decided, among them, notably, the propriety of spinal resection, the very matter so energetically, if not always courteously, debated by the two great authorities referred to, and it is as a contribution toward the settlement of these vexed questions that this essay is respectfully submitted. I am not aware that any attempt has been bith erto made to obtain statistics upon these points from collected clinical records, [and the rarity of this class of cases, or at least of such as admit of careful clinical study, is so great, that it is impossible for any observer to find in his individual experience a sufficiently large number to warrant a positive ex pression of opinion. Of 1901 fractures treated during Six years at the Middlesex Hospital, only 8 were fractures of the vertebrae, * while it is stated by Malgaigne that but 14 such' cases were met with at the Hotel Dieu in eleven years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.