Pediatrics. . Fig. Fk;. 18. 248 PEDIATRICS. vature of the spine, except that it is lateral curvature of the cer-vical spine, and the position of a typical case is shown in and 19. I wish you would contrast these photographs withthose seen in Fig. 20, which are those of a boy with inflamma-tion of the first and second cervical vertebrae. You will noticethat, while the chin is thrown up in the case of torticollis, it isthrown down in the case of spondylitis—that the head is bentmore strongly to the side in the spondylitis and that there isnot so much rotation as there is in the case
Pediatrics. . Fig. Fk;. 18. 248 PEDIATRICS. vature of the spine, except that it is lateral curvature of the cer-vical spine, and the position of a typical case is shown in and 19. I wish you would contrast these photographs withthose seen in Fig. 20, which are those of a boy with inflamma-tion of the first and second cervical vertebrae. You will noticethat, while the chin is thrown up in the case of torticollis, it isthrown down in the case of spondylitis—that the head is bentmore strongly to the side in the spondylitis and that there isnot so much rotation as there is in the case of torticollis. Thesterno-cleido-mastoid is not affected so much as the deepermuscles of the neck, and, while it is possible in the case ofthe boy with torticollis, if his head is held in such a positionas to relax the sterno-mastoid, to move the head quite freelyon the neck, any effort to do this in the case of spondylitiscauses pain. The boy with spondylitis also has great diffi-culty in opening his mouth, and in h
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