This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...of the vertebral colum deviates from a perpendicular, another portion institutes a curve in an opposite direction; shortening the body, and causing additional curves. JFor this reason, in reality, a single curve never exists; more commonly two are found unaccompanied by a third. Three are very common, and four ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...of the vertebral colum deviates from a perpendicular, another portion institutes a curve in an opposite direction; shortening the body, and causing additional curves. JFor this reason, in reality, a single curve never exists; more commonly two are found unaccompanied by a third. Three are very common, and four occasionally met with as seen in the accompanying engraving. Here we have four curves. The first the dorso-lumbar, maintained by the sacro-lumbalis, and longissimns dorsi; central curve, the same muscles with the spinalis and semi-spiniiles dorsi; and the cervical curve, the complexus cervicalis ascendens, and transversalis colli. In the dorso-cervical region, two curves, in extraordinary cases, are definable; and the result an exaggerated condition of the contortion, from the effort to maintain the head in an erect position. See Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, in Fig. 70. TREATMENT OF LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE. It is the general opinion of medical practitioners that lateral curvature of the spine is less amenable to treatment than contortions of the limbs. This impression we attribute to the failure to discover the ailment in its incipiency; and that, when advice is sought, it has advanced to the third stage; requiring much practical skill to relieve the patient, even in a moderate degree, from the pain and inconvenience naturally resulting from so lamentable a condition. The first effort should be to obtain a satisfactory diagnosis of the indications that present in the abnormal developments, and condition of health of the patient; and to ascertain whether any inimical influence is tending to the increase of the ailment; such as occupation or habits of unfavorable position of the body. The treatment should consist of a proper regime associatied with specia...
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