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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XIV
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The author asked if in this case we have to do with a latent leprosy which was evoked by the wound, or if it were a case of inoculation from the fish?
Cutliffe records recovery after amputation at the elbow-joint, as a consequence of an alligator-bite nine days before admission to the hospital.

The patient exhibited a compound comminuted fracture of the right radius and ulna in their lower thirds, compound comminuted fractures of the bones of the carpus and metacarpus, with great laceration of the soft parts, laying bare the wrist-joint, besides several penetrating wounds of the arm and fore-arm.

Mourray gives some notes on a case of crocodile-bite with removal of a large portion of omentum.

Sircar speaks of recovery from a crocodile-bite.

Dudgeon reports two cases of animal-bites, both fatal, one by a bear, and the other by a camel.


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