Recent Investigations into the Pathology of So-Called Concussion of the Spine,

There are few kinds of disease with regard to ™ which the interpretation of evidence is of so much importance as compared with the simple accumulation of evidence as in the case of the so-called concussion of the spine.A man is bruised and shaken up by a severe fall or the jar of a railway collision.When we see him his limbs may appear to be more or less completely paralyzed, or he complains of extreme pain which is aggravated by the slightest motion, while his expres- sion of distress proclaims him to be a very sick man, and enlists our anxiety and our sympathy in his behalf.