Remarks on the angular curvature of the spine / [William Pirrie].

  • Pirrie, William, 1807-1882.
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[1847]
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Credit: Remarks on the angular curvature of the spine / [William Pirrie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the bone. That an inflammatory process occurs in the progress of the disease all agree ; but as to the nature of the morbid action of which the caseous substance is a result, there is a difference of opinion. Sir Benjamin Brodie, Lloyd, Rust, and others, regard the deposit as a product of inflammation, while many others consider it a result of a morbid action, different from inf From many facts which have been ascerta: son to conclude that in scrofulous constitutio certain textures are direct effects of inflamm ; rested if the inflammation be subdued ; but it v. from many observations, and from the history of vnr.\ c . when the constitutional diathesis is very d< ,ec, ' may t place wherever there is any congestion of t wf, wen so times, where there is no trace whatever of ary mge-ticn, m.F mation, or any disturbance of the circulation of view, this is not a matter of very great im e. www n io r i'. icase , er scrofulous, than to any great extent .irious: and further, y condi it ion were a coma scarcely 1 OQ D.C CO ill d be muc fll ould be safe or j. * d li- ; Is belie ved, in pa litioii; 0 ’ tire bloo< d? morbici v defects %/ 7G with reference to the caseous substance in th nerally allowed that depletion has less contrc over common inflammation, that when adopt in persons of a scrofulous diathesis, it is very that even if the first deviation from a her consequence of a low grade of inflammatioi expected that the inflammation within the affected by any extent of depletion, which i cious to institute. The tendency to this dep at least, to depend on a peculiarity in the < which is unusually serous. When the bloo< of fibrine, exudation of albuminous matters w- y apt to 1 ak place on the occurrence of local congestion, < inflan;' »ation; and m many instances it has been found, even who e i trace 'whatever exists of any disturbance of circulation. II vv wri collec¬ tion, many specimens in which bones are aln of file vi; the caseous deposit, where the outer enca 1 of the bone i. very thin, and no trace whatever discoverab. n eased .esc urn rity, but quite the contrary. The diminuth vr.nw.arin, :dfer the occurrence of deposit, has been remarket r Tors. The deposition is succeeded by a low grade oi lo :1am manor of the bones and intervertebral substances, whicl ul a, ; wrenrala- in caries; and, in consequence of destruction of if e' bodies of ' vertebras, as well as of the intervertebral substai ; c the sound pa , above the portion destroyed falls forward on the part bek.o ; n i thus gives rise to angular curvature. The uoenccvni : e destruction is almost invariably towards the ate- • owns •: f the bodies of the vertebras, but sometimes, thoiq v . y rcrcf • posterior aspect; in this case the parts whicii nati : y f: nf it- tachment to the arches are destroyed, and a separation takes place between them and the remaining portions of the bodies of the