The treatment of spina bifida by a new method / by James morton.

  • Morton, James (Biological scientist)
Date:
1877
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Credit: The treatment of spina bifida by a new method / by James morton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Figures of the parts have been given in books, with appropriate descriptions. All authors seem to agree in the local deficiency of the spinal canal, and the protrusion of the covering of the cord, containing a quantity of the spinal fluid and the cord (or portions of its immediate branches), though it has been affirmed that occasionally the latter is absent. I am not aware upon what evidence this statement rests, and meantime prefer to believe in its presence, while awaiting further investigation. Such belief may induce caution in treat- ment, though it need not lead us to doubt the possibility of cure, as a recent writer in the British Medical Journal seems to do. To assume the absence of the cord, or parts of it, in seven consecutive cases, is so en- tirely beyond the range of probability as to be altogether inadmissible, while possibly it was present in all. At the same time