An essay on the various causes and effects of the distorted spine; on the improper methods ... to remove that distortion; in which that recommended by Mr. Pott is considered, and the bad effects of Vacher's ( ... called Jones's) spinal machine are pointed out: with the description of an instrument ... better calculated to remove those distortions than any hitherto ... To which are added, some observations on ... ruptures / [Timothy Sheldrake].

  • Sheldrake, Timothy, Jr.
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[1783]
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Credit: An essay on the various causes and effects of the distorted spine; on the improper methods ... to remove that distortion; in which that recommended by Mr. Pott is considered, and the bad effects of Vacher's ( ... called Jones's) spinal machine are pointed out: with the description of an instrument ... better calculated to remove those distortions than any hitherto ... To which are added, some observations on ... ruptures / [Timothy Sheldrake]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 3° ) bones of the pelvis are perfed and firmly united, the above efFeds may be the confe- quence of ufing it. A GENTLEMAN of eminence in the faculty has told me, he never a'ecommends this ma- chine, becaufe in two cafes he has feen the lumbal abfcefs caufed by the ufe of it: this objedion does not appear to me to be well founded; becaufe, if the preflure of the ma- chine would caufe the lumbal abfcefs, it is probable that in the number of cafes it has been applied to, it would have produced that efFed in more than two inftances. Mr. Pott fays that curvature he treats of, is the efFed of a fcrophulous conftitution, that the lumbal and pfoas abfcefTes are frequently produced from the fame caufe, and therefore when ‘‘ we ufe thefe terms, w^e Ihould be underftood “ to mean only a defcription of the courfe which fuch matteri has.purfued in its way outward, or the place. where it makes its appearance externally j the terms really , meaning