Tumour Simulating Spina Bifida

The patient enjoyed excellent health from his childhood up to the age of 21, when he felt a peculiar sensation of heat and burning over his waist. On rubbing his finger over the part, he felt the skin a little raised. The pain and the swelling lasted for a fortnight or so when it was cured by a hakim of his place. Three months after the alleged cure, he noticed a fluctuating tumour about the size of a playing marble rising from the body of the 5th lumbar vertebra. He did not think much of it, and allowed the tumour to grow to the size of a foetal heat}. He had no other trouble to complain of except a sensation of weight over the part. The cyst