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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XI
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The toe was fastened and drawn into the mill, the leg following almost to the thigh.

The whole left leg and thigh, together with the left side of the scrotum, were torn off; the boy died as a result of his injuries.
Ashurst reported to the Pathological Society of Philadelphia the case of a child of nine who had its right leg caught in the spokes of a carriage wheel.

The child was picked up unconscious, with its thigh entirely severed, and the bone broken off about the middle third; about three inches higher the muscles were torn from the sheaths and appeared as if cut with a knife.

The great sciatic nerve was found hanging 15 inches from the stump, having given way from its division in the popliteal space.

The child died in twelve hours.


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