Injuries of nerves and their consequences - Reflex Sympathetic ...

TREATMENT. 311
June 20th.— The extensors now respond to the currents
the ; burning
is lessened.
August 7th. — A period of great heat has increased the
burning. Conium in olive oil was used by friction, but
gave no relief; nor was any impermeable dressing of
value, except a cover of oiled silk, with a well-applied
bandao^e.
October 29th.— He has every motion of the limb; the
burning is slight. lie left the hospital on furlough, and
returned November 20th, with the burning worse, and the
sensibility still unaltered. Blisters by ammonia to the
sole at length diminished the burning pain, and their
repetition gave still greater relief.
December 1st.— Transferred to the West, greatly improved
;
said to have become much worse as to burning
when the blistering was abandoned.
Case 55.— Gunshot wound of arm ; nerve lesions; loss of
motion and slight loss of sensation ;
relapse from neuritis, icith
contraction of flexors and " clow-hand ;'' recovery. T. B. W.,
aged seventeen, Pennsylvania, bronzer, 29th Pennsylvania
Volunteers. Sickly before enlistment, and has scars of
scrofulous ulcers on the legs.
Has had bronchitis severely,
but wasbetter since enlisting. July 2d, at Gettysburg, while
erect and aiming, was wounded by a ball, which entered
the middle arm, behind the brachial artery, three-fourths
of an inch below the uppermost part of the axillary hollow.
The wound of exit was on a line drawn directly upward
in the axis of the limb, half-way between the olecranon and
internal condyle, six and a quarter inches above the latter.
The scars are small. After falling he received a chest
wound over the third rib above the left nipple, the ball
emerging
in the axilla one inch behind the tendon of the
of axilla.
pectoralis major muscle, half an inch below apex
When first hit, he felt a knifelike pang in the wound, and,
laying his gun down, he stuffed the freely-bleeding axilla