Excerpt from Remarks on Spinal Injuries, More Especially "Railway Spine," With Hints on Expert Testimony: Addressed to the Medical Jurisprudence Society of Philadelphia, March 12, 1889 You will say at once that groups two and three overlap and, again, as regards groups one and two, that a blow sufficient to break the back must of course be sufficient to bruise the muscles and ligaments: in other words, that the various groups I have made merge into one another. Classifications are merely pegs on which to hang our ideas, and I be lieve that such a one as I have given you is more useful for our present purposes than a more elaborate classification based solely upon symptomatology. 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.