Railway spine was a nineteenth-century diagnosis for the post-traumatic symptoms of passengers involved in railroad accidents. The first full-length medical study of the condition was John Eric …

In 1866, a prominent surgeon, Sir John Eric Erichsen, attributed such symptoms to concussion of the spine (popularized as "railway spine") that involved an organic pathology, inflammation of …

2021年3月20日 · Basically, he was arguing railway spine was a weird, wholly mental syndrome that occurred in people who were, say, sexually unsatisfied, promiscuous, prone to drinking, or …

2001年7月28日 · For a generation, Erichsen and his colleagues debated the physical and psychological features of railway spine, trying to balance distress and deceit. Not surprisingly, …

1996年7月1日 · The history of this disorder, which came to be known as "railroad spine" or "Erichsen's disease", represents a little known yet important chapter in the evolution of the …

From a certain class of spinal symptoms and nervous manifestations following and believed to be typical of railway accidents, is evolved the use of the term "railway spine."

"Railway Spine" was the pejorative term applied in the mid-nineteenth century to any of a number of presentations of spinal pain which followed in time railway accidents. The term included …

The nineteenth-century medical condition known as "railway spine" has recently received considerable attention from medical historians, particularly historians of psychiatry and related …

On examining the spine by pressure and percussion, three tender spots were found; one in the upper cervical, the other in the middle dorsal, and the third in the lumbo-sacral region.

2021年3月20日 · But one doctor, Sir John Eric Erichsen, came up with a name for it: railway spine. After a series of train crashes in Great Britain in 1867, many victims came forward to …