Excerpt from The Immediate Correction of the Deformities Resulting From Pott's Disease The immediate results of the work are most striking; but if this is to be the chief purpose, and unless the after-treatment is carried on most patiently and intelligently for years afterward, certain it is that the ultimate results will be as disappointing as the first results have been gratifying, and that relapse will be the rule. Already relapses have been reported by P???an, Phocas, Tansch, Lorenz, and Vincent, and many others must ...
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Excerpt from The Immediate Correction of the Deformities Resulting From Pott's Disease The immediate results of the work are most striking; but if this is to be the chief purpose, and unless the after-treatment is carried on most patiently and intelligently for years afterward, certain it is that the ultimate results will be as disappointing as the first results have been gratifying, and that relapse will be the rule. Already relapses have been reported by P???an, Phocas, Tansch, Lorenz, and Vincent, and many others must follow, if a few months of after treatment, as Calot would have us believe, is all that is necessary to accomplish a cure. It must be remembered that Simple straighten ing of the spine does not materially alter the course of a tubercular disease. It may be slightly modified in some regards, but the dis ease is still the same. Much good, however, will certainly follow the introduction of this method, and it will undoubtedly have its place as a part of the treat ment of Pott's disease; and as the result of it in the future, hump backs will, in all probability, be less common. From my own experience, it seems to me that the chief place for the operation is in the very early stages of the disease, before ex tensive destruction of the bone has taken place. In these cases, instead of fitting apparatus to hold the bones in the deformed posi tion, the spine should be over-extended and the jacket or the appa20 correction OF deformity IN pott's disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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