. Catalogue of Sharp & Smith : importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus, artificial limbs, artificial eyes, elastic stockings, trusses, crutches, supporters, galvanic and faradic batteries, etc., surgeons' appliances of every description. 4 PATENTED FEB. 24, As the twig- is bent, so is the tree inclined. The truth of thisold adage is forcibly brought to mind when one sees a man orwoman disfigured by a crooked spine or stooping shoulders, andone mentally exclaims, If that person had only had propei care whenyoung, that awkward fi


. Catalogue of Sharp & Smith : importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus, artificial limbs, artificial eyes, elastic stockings, trusses, crutches, supporters, galvanic and faradic batteries, etc., surgeons' appliances of every description. 4 PATENTED FEB. 24, As the twig- is bent, so is the tree inclined. The truth of thisold adage is forcibly brought to mind when one sees a man orwoman disfigured by a crooked spine or stooping shoulders, andone mentally exclaims, If that person had only had propei care whenyoung, that awkward figure might have been avoided. For the purpose of correcting this evil, the Back-SupportingShoulder Brace has been devised, and so effectual is it in accomplish-ing its purpose, that it is rapidly growing in favor with all whohave worn it, and it is spoken of in the highest terms of praise byall physicians who have seen and examined it. Attention is called to the general construction, by which a per-fect strengthening support is given to the back, at the same timedrawing the shoulders back so as to expand the chest and throw thebody into an erect, graceful position. All tendency to roundshoulders is thus avoided, and this to the young, at the period whenthe bones and muscles are growing and hardening, is a most impo


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