On the nature, prevention, treatment, and cure of spinal curvatures and deformities of the chest and limbs, without artificial supports or any mechanical appliances / by Mrs Godfrey.

  • Godfrey, Mrs.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On the nature, prevention, treatment, and cure of spinal curvatures and deformities of the chest and limbs, without artificial supports or any mechanical appliances / by Mrs Godfrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The writer of this little work has frequently and earnestly been requested to lay before the public her plan of treatment for spinal curvatures and other deformities of the body; and long ere this would have been prompted, by her desire of lessening in some degree the amount of human suffering, to com- ply with the request, but for the following reasons— namely, the desire for increased knowledge and expe- rience ; the want of time, in consequence of constant attention to patients; and the hope that some one more suitable for so important a work would under- take it. But though many able works on spinal and other deformities have been published, in which she has seen much to admire, and much that has served to confirm her own views of the subject, she has hitherto met with none to which she could refer the reader for a knowledge of the treatment, which, after long experience, she has found to be the most success- ful, and therefore now ventures to recommend. To the praise of authorship or profound science she