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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    u ON T3^E EARLY ^yMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE OJf TBE SPINE, JL HE diseased spine is to be considered gjs a pompjaint of bone qt of ligament, with ^^sp^qt to its cure; but most of its symp.-* tpois ar^ d^rivied from ^disturbance to the functions of the nerves, which ^re dependent on the gpinal marrow, fpj? their ipfluence. There are many diseases, in whiph the signs and effects are in a remote part of the body from the cause which produces them; certain parts and particular structures, are, for the wisest purposes, endowed with such obscure sensation, that they m?^y be very far advanced in disease, before any great in-?