Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane.

  • Lane, William Arbuthnot, 1856-1943.
Date:
[1900]
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Credit: Cleft palate and adenoids. Treatment of simple fractures by operation. Diseases of joints. Operative treatment of Cancer. Acquired deformities. Antrectomy. Hernia, etc / W. Arbuthnot Lane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the resting attitude of the trunk, as represented in a more or less fixed condition by the skeleton of the inactive child and still more feeble old person, this Fig. 145 represents the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae and the sacrum of the coal-heaver in ver¬ tical antero-posterior section, and illustrates the form of spondylo¬ listhesis found in this class of labourer. Fig. 146 shows the form of spondylolisthesis that occurs in such labourers as carry heavy loads on their hacks less heavy than those borne by the coal-heaver, and who pick them off and replace them on the ground. The arthrodial joint seen between the fifth lumbar vertebra and altered upper piece of the sacrum is pro¬ duced by this greater freedom of movement. joint is in a position of considerable flexion. This results in the displacement of the body of the fifth lumbar vertebra downwards and forwards off the sacrum, or in a yielding of the sacrum around a