A system of surgery / Benjamin Bell . and in fome cafes there is reafon to ima-gine that it arifes folely from a thicken-ing of the ligaments which connect thevertebrae together, without any particu-lar affection of the bones. When oneof the vertebrae only is affected, it is ob~ferved that the patient is more complete-ly deprived of the power of his limbsthan when two or more of them are dif-placed, owing perhaps to the angle beingI more Elate Cli. XLII. of the Splfle. Itjf more acute, and confequently the pref-fure on the medulla fpinalis greater whenone bone only is thrown out of the
A system of surgery / Benjamin Bell . and in fome cafes there is reafon to ima-gine that it arifes folely from a thicken-ing of the ligaments which connect thevertebrae together, without any particu-lar affection of the bones. When oneof the vertebrae only is affected, it is ob~ferved that the patient is more complete-ly deprived of the power of his limbsthan when two or more of them are dif-placed, owing perhaps to the angle beingI more Elate Cli. XLII. of the Splfle. Itjf more acute, and confequently the pref-fure on the medulla fpinalis greater whenone bone only is thrown out of the alfo accounts for the paralyticfymptoms in fome cafes becoming lefs re-markable in more advanced frages of thedifeafe than they were at firft} for al-though one bone only is fometimes dis-placed at firft, yet one or both of thecontiguous vertebrse almoft conftantlyyield at laft \ and the difference whichthis occafions is fo great, that patients al-moil always linger and die in the courfeof a year or two, often in lefs time, whenone bone only is deranged j while theylive for a great length of time, frequentlyas long as if no fuch circiimfiance hadoccurred, when the curvature of thefpine becomes more extenfive. As diftortions of the fpine often pro-ceed from delicate weakly patients in-dulging too much in particular poftures,every habit of this kind mould be rigid-ly guarded againfl on the firft appear-ance of the diforder. If the pa
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