4^6 Sir Everard Home's Observations, See, 
the functions of the internal organs were carried on for thirty- 
five days, but the urine and stools passed involuntarily.* 
Blood extravasated in the central part of the medulla in the 
neck, was attended with paralytic affection of the legs, but not 
of the arms.-f* 
In a case where the substance of the medulla was lacerated 
in the neck, there was paralysis in all the parts below the 
laceration ; the lining of the oesophagus was so sensible, that 
solids could not be swallowed, on account of the pain they 
occasioned. 
Where the medulla in the back was completely divided, 
there was momentary loss of sight, loss of memory for fifteen 
minutes, and permanent insensibility in all the lower parts of 
the body. The skin above the division of the spinal marrow 
perspired, that below did not. The wounded spinal marrow 
appeared to be extremely sensible. § 
* A coagulum of blood, the thickness of a crown piece, was found lying upon the 
external surface of the dura-raatral covering of the medulla spinalis, extending from 
the fourth vertebra colli, to the second vertebra dorsi. The medulla spinalis itself was 
uninjured. 
t The sixth and seventh vertebrae colli were dislocated j the medulla spinalis ex- 
ternally was uninjured j but in the centre of its substance, just at that part, there was 
a coagulum of blood nearly two inches In length. 
J The seventh vertebra colli was fractured, and the medulla spinalis passing through 
it, was lacerated and compressed. 
^ The spinal marrow within the canal of the sixth vertebra dorsi was completely 
destroyed by a musket ball. The person lived four days. 
