Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-11
REGISTER DAILY

walking very painful, and the constantly IT.
rltating motion of carriage nearly intolera-
BILE. The bed gives only cramped, labored
repose, for the nature and position of the fire.
wounds are such as to forbid the poor privi-
lege of ''tossing about under penalty Of fresh
agony. This state of things has lasted now
for nearly six weeks. Meanwhile, however,
the burns are slowly closing over. and DR..
Brown Sequard, who is in daily attendance,
does not propose to apply the moxa again for
the next two months.
Some new features in the case have devel-
oped, causing the patient intense new pains.
1t is throwing but little light on them to say
that they are 'curalgic. constringing,' and OPP
pressing the chest with torturing, deadly
weight. They have been considerably re-
duced by the administration of hot baths and
powerful internal remedies. If rightly un-
derstand the physician and his patient, these
new pains are to be regarded purely as an et-
feet of sympathy between the nerves in the
region of the chest and the great nervous cen
trail column-not as an extension to that re-
gion of the malady of the latter, nor as an
Independent local disease of those nerves.
A few days since, man was discharged,
cured. from one of the Paris hospitals, whose
case bears complete likeness TO, and therefore
presents the best hope for, that of Mr.. Sum-
ner. His injuries, received on the head, took
effect IN the spine, by c0atrec0Np or concus-
sion, so as to completely paralyze both legs,
As l said, he has recently been discharged.
cured; but this was after treatment by fire.
continued for three months.
1t is to be hoped that brefer trial will
serve for Mr.. S., but his friends may be sure
that he will not finch from the fiery ordeal,
let 1t be ever so prolonged. His morale, as
the French would say, his pluck, as we phrase
1t vernacularly, is sound.
DR.. Brown Sequard recommended the use
of chlorotorm, as it had been invariably used
IN similar instances coming within that prac-
ticed physoogist's previous experience,
the ground that Mr. Summers moral force
would yield to the excess of physical pain.--
he was surprised at the refusal. and agreeably
disappointed at the result. Mr. S. did not
yield. With him the mere matter of suffer-
ing was secondary. The purpose of the moxa
was to produce counter irritation-the more
violent, within the limits of human endur-
ance, the more effective; applied to nerves
alive and wide awake with sensation the hive
hire must produce more effect than on sooth-
ed, deadeDed nerves. She unprotected sys
TEN receives the full force of the shock, and
its full benefit. on condition that it can hear
1t. Mr.. Summers could, by his force of will,
bear it. The result is, that the FIRE took eff
feet more than it otherwise would have done
Nh. Summers courage was, then, wisely
calculated patience, and no needless stoi-
cism.
On the whole there is as large room for hope
in his case as when l last wrote. SO soon as
he is able to travel without too much pain,
Mr.. 5. purposes, with the assent of his ply
stefan, to leave Paris for short tour in
France. going perhaps to AK, in Savoy, or
some other place convenient for bathing
and for whatever water treatment may be
conducive to his final cure. 1t will crafty
his friends to know that DR.. Hayward of
Boston, on recent visit to London, took oc-
casion to lay his case before Sir Benjamin
Brodie and others, the most eminent medical
authorities of that capital all of whom were
agreed as to the necessity of an active treat
ment, and in approval of the course that has
been pursued by DR.. Sequard.