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Abstract
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N September 26, 1908, there was admitted to the Auburn
City Hospital, a patient with the following history:
Male, age 45, white, creamery worker by occupation; mar-
ried but no children. Father committed suicide at the age of 65 ;
mother died of phlebitis ; one sister of phthisis pulmonalis and
one brother of lead poison; one brother and five sisters living and
well. At the age of 15 he contracted syphilis, for which he re-
ceived no treatment for some six months, when a maculo-
pustular skin eruption appeared which covered much of the body.
He then began treatment and continued for the following three
years. Since that time there has been no apparent return of the
disease.
At the age of 37. he drank some ammonia water which pro-
duced stricture of the esophagus and connecting end of the stom-
ach. He was operated upon and the trouble removed. Ten
months before admission he contracted gonorrhea. He has
anterior curvature of the dorsal spine and, has led a very intem-
perate life. When admitted to the hospital on the above date,
he was in a semiconscious condition, bleeding from a self-inflicted
bullet wound located a little to the left and slightly above the
left nipple. He was very restless and complained of severe and
constant pain in the left leg, which was entirely motionless. The
pain seemed the principal factor that aroused him from his
letharic condition. He remained in this state for three days, dur-
ing which time there was retention of urine and feces. On the
third day, a general left pleuritis developed which cleared up in
something less than three weeks. The paralysis of the leg and
pain, however, continued, the latter being sufficiently severe to
require large and repeated doses of anodynes to afford any rest.
His general condition was becoming bad, the leg commenced to
atrophy and the tendon reflexes were much diminished but not
entirely lost. On October 23, he was radiographed to
locate the bullet and. after a number of exposures, it was fixed
as resting against the left laminae of the last dorsal vertebra...
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