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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    afforded by the Imperial Eoyal General Hospital of that city and the valuable instructions of that good friend of the Anaerican student, Gustav Braun, with the intention of devoting nayself more especially to the practice of midwifery and the topical and me- chanical treatment of uterine disease. In pursuance of the same design, I discharged^ for a period of two years after my return, the duties of physician to the Demilt Dispensary in New York, holding the de- partment of Diseases of Women, in an association with our mutual friend, Prof E. K. Peaslee, which I recall as equally pleasurable and profitable. With a growing practice, however, and especially, per- haps, influenced by my observation in the very dis- couraging class of affections just referred to, I be- came more and more convinced of the importance, nay, the necessity, of a more complete, general, and intelligent adaptation of the principles of mechanical science to therapeutic ends in a large range of chronic affections. It was, therefore, with intense interest that I became acquainted, in 1861, with the Swedish system of Ling, as modified and practised