We report the case of two patients involved in a car crash and victims of multiple injuries. The diagnosis of bilateral dissection of the internal carotid arteries was only evoked belatedly in view of the increase of the neurologic symptoms. They benefitted from anticoagulant treatment. The clinical evolution was good. Dissection of both carotid arteries from blunt head or neck trauma has been reported but is unusual. Diagnosis and treatment are discussed.
is a woman who is attacked with puerperal metritis. The disease first appeared at the Maternity Hospital, where the woman was delivered. She tells us that, having suffered a good deal of distress from her position in life, her pregnancy was accompanied from the commencement by a malaise, nearly constant ; and that when it had reached the seventh month, she suffered so much that she determined on entering the Maternity, where she was soon afterwards delivered. The labor, it appears, was natural, but after
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