Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . , came to BelleA-ue Hospital, November 1875,suffering from lateral curvature of the spine. He was a remark-ably stoutly built boy, and very muscular. Had been accustomed,as he stated, to carry heavy baskets of meat on his left shoulder,holding the basket in place by passing his right arm over hishead, and it was to this habit that he attributed the curve inhis back. The curve commenced about three years before, and heimmediately had a brace applied, but, as he says, without anybene
Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . , came to BelleA-ue Hospital, November 1875,suffering from lateral curvature of the spine. He was a remark-ably stoutly built boy, and very muscular. Had been accustomed,as he stated, to carry heavy baskets of meat on his left shoulder,holding the basket in place by passing his right arm over hishead, and it was to this habit that he attributed the curve inhis back. The curve commenced about three years before, and heimmediately had a brace applied, but, as he says, without anybenefit. The instrument was changed from time to time, andnew ones applied with more powerful levers and screws; but 118 EOTARY-LATEEAL CUKVATUKE OF THE SPINE. they all failed to give him any relief, and his deformity rapidlyincreased nntil he was unable to follow his occupation, and wasadmitted into Bellevue Hospital as an incurable—as seen infig. 68, from i^hotograph by Mason. ? Upon suspending him* the latissimns-dorsi muscle wasbrought very prominently into view (see fig. 69, from photograph Fig. 6&,. by Mason of Bellevue). This muscle remaining equally tenseafter some minutes of suspension, and showing no tendency toelongate, I simply pressed my finger upon it, when he immedi-ately had a spasm of almost all the muscles in his body-—show-ing reflex irritability from contractured tissue, and that it could I had not at the time tried self-susjpensiori. TKEATMENT OF CASES. 119 not be elongated or stretched^ and must therefore be severedeither by rupture or section.^ Fig. 69,
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