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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    ON THE MEANS OF CURE. W HEN the disease is fully understood to be either actually caries, or an inflamed and thickened state of the parts, that will certainly l^ead to caries of the vertebrae, and that all the train of important symp- toms, are rather the consequence of the peculiar situation of the bones, with re- spect to the spinal marrow, than any thing extraordinary in the nature of the complaint; it will then evidently follow, that the treatment will be the same as in a similar complaint of parts of an analo- gous structure, though differently situated. Mr. Pott had all the merit of rendering the use of caustic issues general in the paralytic stage of the disease, and so great