Citation

Norton OD. Buffalo medical and surgical journal 1865; 5(1): e31.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1865)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

36664999

PMCID

PMC9433002

Abstract

Rev. William F. Nelson, aged 56, Chaplain, Washington Park, U. S. A. General Hospital, Cincinnati. On the 28th day of Jan uary, 1865, while in the discharge of his official duties he was knocked down and stunned by the pole of a two-horse sleigh. While on the ground, the horse's foot struck him in the face, over the right molar bone, fracturing and separating the entire upper jaw from its attachments. The external wound, commencing at the tuberosity of the right molar bone, extended horizontally across the nose, immediately'beneath the external canthus of the right eye, then vertically downwards to the ri^ht angle of the mouth. Commencing upwards and going downwards, we find the follow ing injuries: first, a fracture of the several bones composing the floor of the right eye; next, a comminuted fracture of both nasal bones, and their separation from the attachment to the frontal bone. The right superior maxillary bone was also fractured, it running through the antrum hymorianum. Both maxillary bones were loosened from their attachments of the pterygoid plate of the sphenoid. The whole of the right side of the maxillary bone was thrown forward in such a manner, that in looking below, the fauces and epiglottis were plainly visible. ; The palate bones were separated from one another/ and portions of the soft palate torn and lacerated. The last two molars of the upper jaw, and also of the lower, on the right side, and last molar of lower jaw on the left side were loosened. A rib was also fractured on the right side... --Cincinnati Lancet and Observer

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