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
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actual paralysis existed, and the electrical re-actions of the muscles were good, although there was slight dim-inution in response to the induced current. For several monthsbefore I saw her she had lain upon her back, with her feet drawnup%nd her knees bent, and it was only with difficulty that herlower extremities could be fully extended. Believing the case tobe one of hysteria, I at once isolated her and she was systemati-cally treated by mental therapeutics and properly disciplined, withthe result that in a few months she was up and about and appar-ently perfectly well. Other cases are harder to manage and slower to im-prove, and if there be combined injuries, the prognosismay be exceedingly bad. In a very small number thecondition following mixed neurasthenia and hysteria isan absolutely permanent one, but in the experience ofmany years the writer can recall but one case of this in-curable kind in which there were directly produced cerebral PLATE XV. RAILV.AY AXn OTHER ACCIDENTS.
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Case of Functional Paralysis, showing gradual recovery and subsidenceof anesthesia. (Iurves-Stewart.) PROGNOSIS IN RELATION TO VERDICT. 261 or spinal lesions. This hopeless condition was the ter-mination of an initial shock and a developing aboulicneurosis. Case LV.—This man was employed in shifting grain in oneof the cars of the Erie Raihoad, and when so engaged wasthrown to the floor, as the result of a colHsion of the car he wasin with a wild car ahead. He was much frightened, very cold,and had a weak, fluttering pulse. Upon his return to his home hetook to his bed and made no effort to move or help himself.Within a short time he developed a fine tremor, which increasedwhen he tried to take a glass or cup offered him, or used his knifeor fork; this ceased when he was undisturbed. His legs were cold and insensitive, and his wife brought and applied an elec-tric battery which he thought helped him. I saw him abouteighteen months after the accident, and found him sitting in awheel-c

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