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On the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine, and the bones of the chest are subject. With an enquiry into the merits of the several modes of the practice which have hitherto been followed in the treatment of distortions / By John Shaw.

  • Shaw, John, 1792-1827
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine, and the bones of the chest are subject. With an enquiry into the merits of the several modes of the practice which have hitherto been followed in the treatment of distortions / By John Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Manner of imitating the action of rowing Page 237 Conversion of the apparatus into a stretching and re- clining plane ~ - - - 240 Manner of stretching the lumbar portion of the spine 241 ——— — cervical portion - 242 Mode of expanding the contracted side of the chest 243 Means of supporting the patient while sitting on a chair - - “ - - 245 Description of an instrument to be worn, when the pa- tient is walking - - - 249 Means of preventing the spine from being curved while the patient is asleep - - - 252 Description of a case which in some respects resembles wry neck - - - - 254: History of a case in which the consequences of com- mon lateral distortion of the spine, being mistaken for the effects of ricketts, are exemplified - 256 The good effects of appropriate exercises in the worst cases of distortion - - - 260 APPENDIX. Specimens of distortions of the spine without any spe- cific disease of the bones - - = 269 illustrative of the distortions consequent upon ricketts - - - - 272 Description of the skeleton of a woman, on whom it was necessary to perform the Czesarean operation 275 Specimens of distortion consequent upon caries of the vertebrae - ~ - 278