Spinal curvature : description of a new form of apparatus in special relation to the necessity and the nature of mechanical support for the spine / by C.G. Gümpel.

  • Gümpel, Carl Gottfried.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Spinal curvature : description of a new form of apparatus in special relation to the necessity and the nature of mechanical support for the spine / by C.G. Gümpel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    lO This apparatus offers the further important ad- vantage, that the support it gives is not dependent upon the circumferential pressure round the chest and waist, as is the case with the so-called spinal jacket and also with the ordinary corset. This latter can only afford support (which after all is rather doubtful and deceiving in its character) through tight lacing. The evils engendered thereby, and so much and so earnestly dwelt upon by medical men, are, or ought to be well known and understood, consisting in a confinement of the internal organs and an inter- ference with their proper functions. This new apparatus is entirely free firom these objections; and especially so in the case of children in which the only fastening in front consists of a short lacing band. It deserves mention here, that by a simple con- trivance—viz.: an extended band or a padded metal plate—special support can be given to the abdomen which is often desirable in combination with the Support in the lumbar region (the hollow) of the spine. Fig. I. shows the apparatus as applied to the wearer. A thin metal (steel) band passes across the back of the pelvis, from hip to hip; on this band at the centre of the spine is fixed a steel spring bent in