uch higher fall than this without serious
consequence. In 1792 a bricklayer fell from the fourth story of a high
house in Paris, landing with his feet on the dirt and his body on
stone. He bled from the nose, and lost consciousness for about
forty-five minutes; he was carried to the Hotel-Dieu where it was found
that he had considerable difficulty in breathing; the regions about the
external malleoli were contused and swollen, but by the eighth day the
patient had recovered. In the recent reparation of the Hotel Raleigh in
Washington, D.C., a man fell from the top of the building, which is
above the average height, fracturing several ribs and rupturing his
lung. He was taken to the Emergency Hospital where he was put to bed,
and persistent treatment for shock was pursued; little hope of the
man's recovery was entertained. His friends were told of his apparently
hopeless condition. There were no external signs of the injury with the
exception of the emphysema following rupture of the lung. Respiration
was limited and thoracic movement diminished by adhesive straps and a
binder; under careful treatment the man recovered.

Kartulus mentions an English boy of eight who, on June 1, 1879, while
playing on the terrace in the third story of a house in Alexandria, in
attempting to fly a kite in company with an Arab servant, slipped and
fell 71 feet to a granite pavement below. He was picked up conscious,
but both legs were fractured about the middle. He had so far recovered
by the 24th of July that he could hobble about on crutches. On the 15th
of November of the same year he was seen by Kartulus racing across the
playground with some other boys; as he came in third in the race he had
evidently lost little of his agility. Parrott reports the history of a
man of fifty, weighing 196 pounds, who fell 110 feet from the steeple
of a church. In his descent he broke a scaffold pole in two, and fell
through the wooden roof of an engine-house below, breaking several
planks and two strong joists, and landing upon some sacks of cement
inside the house. When picked up he was unconscious, but regained his
senses in a short time, and it was found that his injuries were not
serious. The left metacarpal bones were dislocated from the carpal
bones, the left tibia was fractured, and there were contusions about
the back and hips. Twelve days later he left for home with his leg in
plaster. Farber and McCassy report a case in which a man fell 50 feet