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Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay [New Series] for the years 1851 & 1852

1853

From an examination of eighty fatal cases selected indiscrimnately excluding those of the year 1847 just noticed the causes appear as follows :- Contused wounds 16 : 1 of the face 3 of the fingers 1 of the toes 5 of the leg 4 of the scalp 1 of the thigh and 1 of the foot. [...] On admission the whole of the fore-arm and a considerable part of the arm were in a state of gangrene a line of separation having formed about the middle of the latter ; much of the soft parts had been thrown off; the bones of the fore-arm being in several places bare. [...] The cases treated in the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital would lead to the belief that the interval between the receipt of injury and the occurrence of the disease is pinch more considerable : thus of 28 cases in which the number of days is mentioned— In 5 the interval was (3 days. [...] Considering therefore the very short time that elapsed between the performance of the operation and the accession of the disease the fact also that the condition of the limb was nearly the same in the three cases and that these are the only instances in which tetanus has followed any surgical operation in the hospital the conviction in my mind is very strong that the original injury and not t [...] The tonic spasm I believe in general precedes the other variety of muscular cotraction and in the abdominal muscles the muscles of the jaw and in those of the neck continues throughout the whole course of the seizure.
technology medicine science
Pages
361
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145697
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv unknown view
Report upon the Cases of Tetanus in the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital from January 1845 to December 1851
1-41 J. Peet view
Cases Selected from the Hospital Practice of the 1st Fusiliers for 1851
42-62 F. S. Arnott view
Tables and Remarks on the Medical Statistics of the European Troops (Queen’s and Company’s) Stationed at Bombay in the Deccan Belgaum Deesa and Aden between the years 1830 and 1846
63-113 H. Webb view
A Contribution to Dietetics
114-127 A. H. Leith view
Medical History of the Central Schools of Bombay for the Five years ending the 1st July 1852; Including a Visitation of Measles
128-146 H. J. Carter view
Notes upon some Articles of the Materia Medica Procured near and Exported from Aden
147-159 J. Vaughan view
Cases of Abscess in the Liver Pointing Externally and Opened by Incision or Discharging into some of the Abdominal or Thoracic Passages and Cavities; with Remarks on the Treatment by Operation
160-188 M. Stovell view
Notes on Pericarditis Endocarditis and Organic Disease of the Heart and Aorta as Observed Chiefly in the Clinical Ward of the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital at Bombay
189-293 C. Morehead view
Annual Report of the European General Hospital from April 1st 1851 to March 31st 1852
294-306 M. Stovell view
Appendix
307-342 unknown view
Proceedings of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay for the years 1851 and 1852
343-350 unknown view
Regulations of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay
351-354 unknown view
Medical and Physical Society of Bombay for the year 1853
355-356 unknown view
Errata
i-i unknown view

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