The mechanical treatment of angular curvature, or, Pott's disease of the spine : read before the New York State Medical Society at its fifty-sixth annual meeting, at Albany, Feb. 3d, 4th, and 5th, 1863, and printed in the society's transactions / by Charles Fayette Taylor.

  • Taylor, Charles Fayette, 1827-1899.
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[1863?]
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Credit: The mechanical treatment of angular curvature, or, Pott's disease of the spine : read before the New York State Medical Society at its fifty-sixth annual meeting, at Albany, Feb. 3d, 4th, and 5th, 1863, and printed in the society's transactions / by Charles Fayette Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ever she was lifted or twisted in the least, there would be paroxysms of distress of uncommon sow - ity, accompanied by suspended respiration, flush- ed face, etc. Added to this, was complete para- plegia, which had existed for several weeks. The case appeared to be an unusually severe one; as, besides the remarkable severity of the rational symptoms, boths thighs were considerably drawn up from contraction of the psoas muscles, as though an abscess were already in process of formation. The instrument was carefully applied, the affect- ed portion relieved as much as was thought best, and the patient sent home for the day. The next morning the mother came back with the child and reported that since morning she .had been walking about. This was verified in my presence, the little patient walking feebly and slightly bent forward, owing to some remaining contraction of the psoas muscles, but apparently without pain. In about three weeks she could stand wholly erect, and now evinces no indications of her malady; she has not had a single paroxysm since the instrument was applied. She runs about in all respects like other children, and appears to have very good general health. She is three years old, and the daughter of Captain Tuthill, of Greenport, Long Island.