The homoeopathic treatment of spinal curvatures : according to the new principle / by E.C. Franklin.

  • Franklin, E. C. (Edward Carroll), 1822-1885.
Date:
1878
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Credit: The homoeopathic treatment of spinal curvatures : according to the new principle / by E.C. Franklin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tared head or limb. Both may enlist our admira- tion for their independent beauty, but neither the one nor the other enables us to build up in the imagination, that exquisite carriage which is the distinguishing beauty of the human frame. This •carriage is mainly due to the trunk ; and the re- lation of the head and limbs to it, apart from the trunk, is slight. While we admire the broad shoulders, and tapering waists of our City Belles, and descant in rapturous eloquence and poetic expressions upon the curved lines of beauty that outline the female form, which fashion, that potent spell, has -constrained with ribs of steel, and corsets of bone, our duty as philanthrophic surgeons is to depict to those foolish mothers the blighted form, that ■while they count, says Pare, to have their young •daughters' bodies so small in the middle as ma}' be possible, they are plucking and drawing their bones awry and making them illshapen and crook- ed. Is it not a little singular, that the earliest piece of mechanism intended to be worn for the relief of a distorted spine, has been more fruitful ■of deformity in woman, than any other individual •cause ? The same may be said of high heel shoes, and the extravagant extent to which they were carried in that late preposterous fashion, the Grecian