Volume 1

On a new operation for the cure of lateral curvature of the spine: with remarks on the causes and nature of that disease / By Frederic C. Skey.

  • Skey, Frederic C. (Frederic Carpenter), 1798-1872.
Date:
1841
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On a new operation for the cure of lateral curvature of the spine: with remarks on the causes and nature of that disease / By Frederic C. Skey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    incentive to communicate my opinions in print I am influenced by a desire to explain, in a simple and distinct manner, the nature of the deformity—more especially those conditions of it in which alone the operation is justifiable,—and to warn against the too common practice of over¬ tasking a new remedy, without a due regard to the selection of appropriate cases. I would insist upon this point with much emphasis, as an error which cannot be too strongly deprecated, its effect being, that measures, of sterling value, in their proper sphere of action, to the good of man¬ kind, are perverted to the production of most serious mischief. Charter-House Square, December 1840.