Spinal curvature, its theory; its cure: giving a description of the anatomy of the spine and the parts in relation thereto / By George N. Epps.

  • Epps, George N. (George Napoleon), 1815-1874.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Spinal curvature, its theory; its cure: giving a description of the anatomy of the spine and the parts in relation thereto / By George N. Epps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE EFFICACY young lady was, as Dr. Harrison predicted, restored to good health, and is now the mothei of eight children (July 1840J, the cure remaining perfect after twenty years. Deductions.—This case is a proof that the patient, affected by deformity, cannot only be cured, but the cure rendered permanent. The history of the case presents a lamentable exhibition of the cruelties to which professional pride gives birth; to restore to health a patient who was to die in three months was an unpardonable offence, which required a father’s ruin as an expiation. CASE XIX. CASE OF CURVATURE OF THE SPINE, WITH ONE LIMB SHORTER THAN THE OTHER, AND ATTENDED WITH THE LOSS OF THE POWER OF USING THE LOWER LIMBS, CURED BY DR. HARRISON. Miss M. II., aged 13, of the sanguine temperament, lax fibre, and with her left leg an inch longer than the right, began the usual treatment June 4th. She had lost the entire feeling and use of the lower extremities. Frictions to the limbs, or a smart stroke upon the soles of the feet excited no sensation: they were always . cold; the skin was mottled and of a dull hue. She had been some months under the treatment of an experienced surgeon, who declared when the toes were insensible and without motion, he had never witnessed a cure. On examining the naked back, which he had neglected to do, most of the dorsal vertebrae were found twisted towards the right, the ribs forming an elevated wreath in the same direction. The lumbar hollow was more than obliterated ; the spine actually projected. From the displacement or subluxation of so many vertebrae,