On the improvement and preservation of the female figure : with a new mode of treatment of lateral curvature of the spine / by G. Borlase Childs.

  • Childs, G. B. (George Borlase), 1816-1888.
Date:
[between 1847 and 1860]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the improvement and preservation of the female figure : with a new mode of treatment of lateral curvature of the spine / by G. Borlase Childs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f PREFACE. My^ object in the following pages has been to direct the attention of parents, and those con¬ ducting public seminaries, to an early consideration of the causes which tend most materially to injure, the health of the young, and lay the foundation of spinal deformities, as well as to advise and point out the means best adapted for their removal when these complaints occur. Open as these observations now are to cri-. ticism, I trust, should they he deemed worthy of notice, some protection may be afforded them from a remembrance, that, in the accomplishment of my object, I have discarded all technical lan¬ guage, and endeavoured to reduce my observa-r tions to the perception and judgment of the general reader.