Bulletin of the Warren Anatomical Museum / Harvard Medical School.

  • Harvard Medical School.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Bulletin of the Warren Anatomical Museum / Harvard Medical School. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fcONfeS.— ftJBfekCOtOSiS. f with a twinge in his neck, and at the same time the head was violently twisted toward the left shoulder, followed by intense agony, dyspnoea and convulsions. He shortly recovered so as to be able to walk across the street. This was followed in a week by paralysis, and he died two months later. 1851. Dr. Buckminster Brown. 5i 13. Vertebrae. The cervical vertebrae dried. There is caries of the bodies of the four last cervical vertebrae with anchy- losis of the wings of the third and fourth. From a little girl 11 years old, who died from extensive tuberculosis of the lungs and intestines, and about five months before death she complained of pain in her neck, sometimes radiating to the shoulders. The neck was stiff. Dr. Woodbridge Strong. 4619. Vertebrae. A part of the spinal column, dried. A section shows that the bodies of the last four cervical and first dorsal vertebrae are almost entirely destroyed and replaced by a white, cheesy mate- rial. The lamina of the fifth cervical is much altered in form and those of the sixth stop far short of the body of the bone. The laminae of the cervical vertebrae are extensively fused, and there is a marked forward dislocation at the seat of disease. From a girl 6± years old who had showed symptoms of disease since she was 14 months old. When 2\ years old she fell from a chair and paralysis soon followed. When 4 years old an abscess formed in the neck which was not opened until eight months before death. 1876. Dr. S. G. Webber. 8744. Vertebrae. A portion of the neck and thorax in fluid. There is an irregularly rounded swelling in front of the vertebrae by which the trachea is pushed forward and flattened. The bodies of the first five dor- sal vertebrae are partly destroyed and infiltrated with cheesy material. 8744-1. Spinal Cord and Membranes from No. 8744, in fluid. The cord is flattened and distorted and there is a flattened cheesy mass on the anterior surface of the dura matter. This corresponds to a similar process in the bodies of the vertebrae. 1896. Children's Hospital. 9032. Vertebrae. The dorsal region with part of the chest wall in fluid. A section through eight dorsal vertebrae shows that the body of one is almost destroyed and replaced by a cheesy abscess which bulges backward into the spinal canal, but has not broken into it. Anteriorly the process has ex-