Practical observations on the prevention, causes, and treatment of curvatures of the spine : with an etching and description of an apparatus for the correction of the deformity . y f&.CoowM fumbbGlStk%7,. T7J CASE. 143 isting disease in the hip joint, is productive of extremedeformity, and great difficulty in walking; it is also causedby a softening of the bones, as in rickets; because, allbeing equally diseased, there is the weight of the trunksuperadded to that of the head and shoulders pressing uponthe vertebrae of this part of the column. In this case,the deformity is general, the incurvat
Practical observations on the prevention, causes, and treatment of curvatures of the spine : with an etching and description of an apparatus for the correction of the deformity . y f&.CoowM fumbbGlStk%7,. T7J CASE. 143 isting disease in the hip joint, is productive of extremedeformity, and great difficulty in walking; it is also causedby a softening of the bones, as in rickets; because, allbeing equally diseased, there is the weight of the trunksuperadded to that of the head and shoulders pressing uponthe vertebrae of this part of the column. In this case,the deformity is general, the incurvation rarely occurringalone. In persons suffering from this species of the disease,there is always a stiff and formal carriage, accompaniedwith extreme rotundity and lameness about the hip : inthis, as in the other forms, inflammation and its conse-quences may take place, according as there exists a scrofu-lous diathesis or otherwise. This species of curvature, perhaps of all others, isthe most serious, and in females requires the greatestattention, on account of the deformity of the brim ofthe pelvis, the lower part of the lumbar vertebrae andthe sacrum being pushed forward, and consequentlydiminis
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