Observations on the causes and early symptoms of defects in the form of the spine, chest, and shoulders, and on the means of correcting them : with remarks on the different methods pursued in this country and on the continent, in the treatment of distortions : being an enlarged edition of the papers lately published in the London Medical Joural / by John Shaw.

  • Shaw, John, 1792-1827.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Observations on the causes and early symptoms of defects in the form of the spine, chest, and shoulders, and on the means of correcting them : with remarks on the different methods pursued in this country and on the continent, in the treatment of distortions : being an enlarged edition of the papers lately published in the London Medical Joural / by John Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PLAN OF TREATING DISTORTIONS BY ATTEMPT- ING TO REPLACE BY MAIN FORCE VERTEBRiE ALLEGED TO BE DISLOCATED. This is copied from the works of Am- brose Paree, but it does not give a more formidable idea of the modern invention than the description given hj the oper- ator of the manner he attempts to reduce dislocated vertebrae. * * « I caused the spine to be stretched daily, for an hour at a time, in order to draw out, and, in some de- gree, to separate the vertebrae from each other. This operation was performed by means of the shoulders