Identifier: railwayotheracci00hami (find matches)
Title: Railway and other accidents with relation to injury and disease of the nervous system : a book for court use
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hamilton, Allan McLane, 1848-1919
Subjects: Railroad accidents Nervous system Medical jurisprudence Accidents Jurisprudence
Publisher: New York : Wood
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ain-tained, the formation of a hard projection correspondingto the synovial sacs through which the extensor tendonspass, or a hypertrophy of the carpal bones themselves(Fig. 30). We are sometimes called upon to differentiatebetween traumatic paralysis and that form due to leadpoisoning, and cases also present themselves which areexamples of simple pressure paralysis due to the use of acrutch or following some form of compression of the nerveby a hard body, or such as occurs when a person sleepssoundly with his arm beneath him, especially if he be in a PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES. 235 drunken stupor. In the plumbic form the developmentof the paralysis is slow, peripheral at first, usually double,and accompanied by the colic and other symptoms of leadtoxemia, including often the lead line about the gums. Case LI.—Dorman vs Metropolitan Street Railroad. Throughan accident the plaintiff was injured on November 22d, 1900, itbeing alleged that he received a blow from a trolley pole attached
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Fig. -Drop-wrist, li • >:n 1 >L Lhe Musculo-Spiral Nerve. (Bailey.) to one of the defendants cars, the wire breaking and allow-ing it in some manner to fall. He was unconscious and sufferedfrom shock and very great pain in the left shoulder which wasstruck, and was the seat of ecchymosis and swelling. He wasseen by a doctor, who found paralysis of the muscles of the fore-arm and hand, the arm being flat down by the side ; but therewas some subsequent improvement, for he could move his fingers. 236 J^A/LWAV AJVB OTHER ACCIDENTS. A diagnosis was made of injury of the brachial plexus withneuritis. There were early supersensitiveness and weakness, par-ticularly of the flexors, and a diminution of electromuscular irrita-bility, the reaction of degeneration being subsequently found. Itdoes not appear that there was any very great atrophy of thearm even as late as February, igoi. This man received a verdictof $2,500. Paralysis of the median nerve is uncommon becauseof its deep and pr

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