Fifty days after the accident he suffered excruciating pain at the change of the weather, and at the approach of a storm the joints, as well as the neck, were involved.

It was believed (one hundred and seven days after the accident) that both fracture and luxation existed.

His voice had become guttural, but examination of the fauces was negative.

The only evidence of paralysis was in the fingers, which, when applied to anything, experienced the sensation of touching gravel.

The mottling of the tissues of the neck, which appeared about the fiftieth day, had entirely disappeared.
According to Thorburn, Hilton had a patient who lived fourteen years with paraplegia due to fracture of the 5th, 6th, and 7th cervical vertebrae.