Excerpt from The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, 1866, Vol. 42: Consisting of Original Communications, Reviews In the present paper I purpose to consider the special circum stances and symptoms which appear to indicate cases favourable for the operation, or the reverse; and finally the method of performing the operation in the different regions of the Spine. Before, however, entering on the consideration of these topics I may be allowed to add a few observations in reply to some objections which have been raised to the operation of trephining the Spine. Case I. (dr. Gordon's Case). - Michael Clinton, a slight and well-made, although rather pallid and wasted, man, of thirty-one years of age, was admitted to the Whitworth Hospital, under Dr. Gordon's care, on May 30th, 1865. For some years he had been employed as an engineer on railways in the United States, and describes himself as having been an active, healthy person up to the 27th of March last, when he met with an accident of which he gives the following account - While hunting, his horse shied at a fence, and he was flung off into a gripe on his back, which came in contact with some stones; immediately his lower limbs were paralysed; he made an effort to get up, but found that he was completely powerless from the waist down. He was carried home in great pain; for four or five days he had retention of urine, requiring the introduction of the catheter; at this period the distention of the bladder caused him acute pain; after this the urine began to dribble away; it became, as he says, very Offensive, and full of corruption-like matter. 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.