Contributions to the pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of angular curvature of the spine / by Benjamin Lee.

  • Lee, Benjamin, 1833-1913.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Contributions to the pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of angular curvature of the spine / by Benjamin Lee. 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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    ULCERATIVE INFLAMMATION OF THE SPINAL COLUMN, COMMONLY CALLED POTT'S DISEASE. The following cases have been carefully selected from a large number whicb have come under my observation, as presenting various phases or types of the disease to which they belong, and more espe- cially in illustration of its differing and often insidi- ous modes of invasion. I cannot but express the hope that a careful perusal of them will lead the general practitioner to be more on the alert for the initial symptoms of this terrible affection. I consider that they sufficiently demonstrate— 1st, That unmistakable signs of invasion often show themselves many months before absorption has produced deformity; and, 2d, That in this stage of invasion, the disease is extremely tractable—perfect recovery being almost always attainable. At the same time, encouraging testimony is afforded to the fact that no case is too desperate, unless anchylosis be already perfectly established, 10