A PECULIAR CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5761, 4 January 1897, Page 2

A PECULIAR CASE.

The state of Mr John Jackson, an Auckland commercial traveller, who has been lying insensible in the Thames Hospital for nearly a week, is exciting great sympathy in Auckland, where he is well known, and keen interest in medical circles owing to the singular nature of the case. It seems that Mr Jackson's leg was broken on Christmas Eve, through a barrel of cement falling on him out of a cart. His head was not injured by his fall, as appeared from a recent telegram, and the sufferer remained- conscious and even cheerful for more than twelve hours after his admission to tho hospital. But on Christmas morning he was found to be unconscious, and" he has remained so ever since. The medical theory is that this extraordinary state of affairs has Wen brought about by the rare complication \ known as an embolism. 1b ia suggested | that .some of the marrow "of the broken leg has got into the vein system, and in tho course of the circulation has been carried to the brain, where it has settled nud caused insensibility. Dr Kuight, of Auckland, has gone to tho Thames expressly to assist Dr Williams, the hospital surgeon, in attendance upon the patient. Dr Williams states that. ho has only known of two similar cases, and these were in England. Treatment seems to be considered to be of little avail in the matter, and the watchers can -only wait on in the hope that nature will assert itself, aud bring about the removal of the obstruction that is the cause" of the immediato danger.