Two Cases of Paraplegia after Parturition
- Authors: Leeson R.
- Issue: Vol 12, No 5 (1898)
- Pages: 678-678
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/jowd/article/view/44764
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/JOWD125678-678
- ID: 44764
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Abstract
The extreme rarity of such sicknesses is proven as if the author had already found nothing about them in English textbooks.
In the first case, the paraplegia developed in a 24-year-old woman after three births; the subsequent ones were completed by manual separation of a bigger place, made without violence and with subsequent uterine washing. The disease was noticed 36 hours after delivery: the legs were lying in ecstasy and the muscles felt stiffened, only in the heel some mobility was preserved.
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