Observations on functional affections of the spinal cord and ganglionic system of nerves, in which their identity with sympathetic, nervous, and imitative diseases is illustrated / by William Griffin and by Daniel Griffin.

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1834
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    the third or fourth dorsal to the eighth or ninth, it was excited at the ensiform cartilage; yet lower, at the sides, and in the lumbar vertebrse, pain was excited in the iliac and pubic regions. Pressure behind the trochanter pro- duced pain at the crista of the ilium, at the inside of the thigh, and also in the sides, or in the opposite hip. On the thigh or knee, it excited pain in the shins and toes. The pain was more acute on pressing the first or second cervical, and seventh or eighth dorsal, than any others ; which accounts for the headach and pain of stomach having been the most constant and distressing of all the symptoms. This is by no means either one of the most uncommon or worst forms of spinal irritation. It may be of use, perhaps, to compare it with a case of chronic disease from injury, in which the analogy seems sufficiently strong to assist or in- fluence our views of its nature. IV. William Collins, a tall, spare man, aged fifty, about two years since, while working in a mill, had his coat seized, and was caught up by the wheel. The machinery was stopped in sufficient time to prevent his being ground to pieces, but his shoulders, back, and neck, were much crushed and injured. He was long ill, and had but an im- perfect recovery, remaining affected with paralysis of the upper extremities, contraction of the fingers, and debility of the lower limbs; he also suffered from pain and stiffness of the muscles of the neck, pains in all the limbs and joints, with crackling noise on motion, as in-chronic rheumatism, and pains frequently in the head, chest, or abdomen. He has not latterly complained of the back. The examination of the spine, which was universally tender, gave the following results : Pressure on the first or second cervical vertebra occasioned pain over the brow; on the second or third, above and about the larynx ; on the lower cervical, the lower part of the tra- chea as it enters the chest, and also at the top of the shoulder and in front of the chest. Pressure on the upper dorsal occasioned it at the superior part of the thorax ; on the seventh or eighth, at the ensiform cartilage; on the tenth or twelfth, at the umbilicus. On the upper lumbar, at the