Transactions of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 10

Excerpt from Transactions of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 10: Containing the Report of the Proceedings From September, 1879, to July, 1881 Again, if a man falls from a height and strikes full upon the vault in some comparatively yielding Substance, as soft earth, the weight. Of the body again strikes, through the medium of the spine, a violent blow upon the occipital condyles, thus fracturing them. This state ment of such injuries being due to direct force may appear clearer if I say that a blow is merely the exciter of vibrations, and that we must consider the point whence they start as in reality the point of impact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.