Observations on the symptoms and treatment of the diseased spine : more particularly relating to the incipient stages : with some remarks on the consequent palsy / by Thomas Copeland.

  • Copeland, Thomas, 1781-1855.
Date:
1815,
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Credit: Observations on the symptoms and treatment of the diseased spine : more particularly relating to the incipient stages : with some remarks on the consequent palsy / by Thomas Copeland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pressure does not materially interfere with the large nervous trunks, as in the knee, and other joints, it possesses no importance beyond itself as a disease of ligament; but, where the ligamentous circumference of the spinal marrow is increased in size, it must produce a greater or less disturb- ance of the functions of the parts below. Mr. Pott, in hi^ first publication, was of opinion,' that the body of the vertebra itself was augmented in size ; but he cor- rected this opinion in his farther remarks on the complaint. Sir James Earle, still later, is of opinion, that some enlargement does actually take place in the bony structure of the vertebrae. / Now, although this kind of bone is peculiarly liable to disease, and we often see it diseased at the same time in dif- ferent parts of the body, I believe that an enlargement of that spongy cancel- lated species of bone, which composes