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Spinal Curvature Comprising a Description of the Various Types of Curvature of the Spine with the Mechanical Appliances Best Suited for Their Treatment

Spinal Curvature Comprising a Description of the Various Types of Curvature of the Spine with the Mechanical Appliances Best Suited for Their Treatment


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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. 1882 Excerpt: ...although utterly inadequate in action, are perfectly correct in intention, and the treatment of this stage of the curvature, therefore, will consist in carrying out by art the plan indicated by nature, but which she herself is incompetent to fulfil. Treatment--First, by proper constitutional and medicinal treatment the health of the patient must be brought to such a condition as to enable the system to get the better of the degenerative disease, while the removal of all suppurative debris, either by absorption or through carefully opened abscesses, is encouraged. This purely medical portion of the treatment does not fall within the pale of these pages, and indeed it has been fully dealt with in other works by more qualified pens. The other portion of the treatment is, however, entirely mechanical, and has for its object to hold the diseased part of the spine quiescent and motionless, to relieve it from the grating and grinding of the burden which in health it is well able to bear, but which when broken down by disease it cannot tolerate. The appliance to do this must be a passive one, there being no call for active power. Its duty is not to cause permanent changes (as an-active appliance does), but, on the contrary, to check the least temporary ones. It must also hold as great a length of the spine as possible, because it would be insufficient to only actually grasp the diseased part, for the movements of the spine are undulatory, and pass along it as waves flicked along a loose rope, so that if only the diseased part were held, the waves of motion would still progress along the unheld parts of the spine and be stopped with a jolt at the held part, and their power be distributed as a vibratory jar over such held and diseased part, an occurrence quite at var...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236075116
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236075110
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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