The results of recent researches in the treatment of phthisis.

  • Yeo, I. Burney (Isaac Burney), 1835-1914.
Date:
1877
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Credit: The results of recent researches in the treatment of phthisis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    to extirpate such enlarged glands when they refuse to yield to constitutional treatment. At the approach of puberty, we should look especially to the proper development of the thorax, we should see that the carriage of the body is such that the chest expands freely. Mr. Liebreich has given much attention to the correction of faulty attitudes and positions arising during school-life; and although his original object was to prevent and correct de- fects of vision, he has carried his observations further than this, and many of his remarks apply equally well to the rectification of those faulty attitudes which interfere with the healthy action of the organs of respiration, and promote the development of phthisical disease when a tendency to it exists. Speaking of the treat- ment of tendencies to spinal curvature, he observes : “If a hard surface is to give the back rest, without making it suffer, it must have certain curvatures so adapted to the normal shape of the body that this latter is supported everywhere, and its weight equally distributed. These curvatures I have carefully studied, and, following their outlines, I have designed a couch adapted to the inclination of the body at an angle