Deformities of the spine and chest, successfully treated by exercise alone; and without extension, pressure, or division of muscles / by Chas. H. Rogers Harrison.

  • Harrison C. H. Rogers (Charles Henry Rogers), 1811-1890.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Deformities of the spine and chest, successfully treated by exercise alone; and without extension, pressure, or division of muscles / by Chas. H. Rogers Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    and roughest on its superior surface, and the strong- est among the eight, considering its smallness: it has the longest and smallest neck, and is immove- ably attached to the superior breast-bone by the shortest, hardest, but broadest cartilage, and in the least slanting direction.—The second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh ribs, as they descend, in- crease gradually in length, strength and obliquity. The cartilage of the first rib descends towards the superior breast-bone, to which it is firmly at- tached.—The cartilage of the second rib runs almost horizontally.—From the third to the seventh rib, the cartilages gradually bend and ascend more, be- come longer, thicker, and increase in breadth up- wards, terminating either roundly or angularly, and being proportionally turned in to the middle breast- bone. Besides this, the cartilages of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth ribs are generally bound, though flexibly, to each other by a peculiar descending process of the cartilages lying above them; as the sixth by a process from the fifth, &c. Sometimes, only the cartilages of the sixth, seventh and eighth ribs are united in this manner, and sometimes those of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth. Sometimes three or four cartilages flow as it were into an undivided mass. The eighth rib is altogether shorter than the seventh, but, considering only its bony part, it is