Surgical treatment; a practical treatise on the therapy of surgical diseases for the use of practitioners and students of surgery . t are alsoeffective. THE SPINE 351 At the old Chambers Street Hospital in New York, we treated these cases with theactual cautery. The metal, heated to a cherry red, was rapidly waved back and forth overthe affected area, as children play with a lire stick to make the appearance of streaks offire in the air. The hot point in its rapid movements was brought nearer and nearer tothe skin, occasionally touching it, as indicated by the patients jumps, the faint cloud o
Surgical treatment; a practical treatise on the therapy of surgical diseases for the use of practitioners and students of surgery . t are alsoeffective. THE SPINE 351 At the old Chambers Street Hospital in New York, we treated these cases with theactual cautery. The metal, heated to a cherry red, was rapidly waved back and forth overthe affected area, as children play with a lire stick to make the appearance of streaks offire in the air. The hot point in its rapid movements was brought nearer and nearer tothe skin, occasionally touching it, as indicated by the patients jumps, the faint cloud ofsmoke, the odor, and the series of long, slightly curved red stripes, which told the story oftreatment well administered. Our percentage of cures seemed to be very high, becausethe patients were told to come back for another treatment if there was any return of thelumbago, and I do not recollect that any ever returned. Kyphosis.—Non-tuberculous kyphosis, usually habitual and calledround shoulders, requires correction of the cause such as weak feet, andthen treatment by forcible extension of the flexed portion of the
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