Essays, physiological and philosophical : on the distortion of the spine, the motive power of animals, the fallacy of the senses, and the properties of matter / by C.H. Wilkinson.

  • Wilkinson, C.H.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Essays, physiological and philosophical : on the distortion of the spine, the motive power of animals, the fallacy of the senses, and the properties of matter / by C.H. Wilkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. I KNOW not of any work profefledly written on Diftortions of the Spine, with a view of inveftigating the ftate of mechani- cal defed:, and of afcertaining the maximum of relief which may be derived from artifi- cial contrivances. Gliflbn, in his Treatife on Rickets, al- though he attributes diftoftion to the action of a peculiar kind of virus, yet he adopted a mpde of extenfion, by fwinging a child on an efcarpolette: an infant cannot fuffer fuch a fufpenfion for more than a quarter of an hour, a time too fhort to afford the leafl re* lief. Heifter fuppofed that a diftortion might be removed by means of a continual pref- fure; with this view he firft made ufe of a back board. It requires but little knowledge of mechanics to demonftrate the inefficaty of fuch a mode, and ftill lefs knowledge of a phyfiology,