Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . k, came to me, March 16, 1877, with lateral died of Brights disease, mother healthy, sister also well as a boy, until about eighteen months since, whenhe began to observe that his back was getting crooked, theresult, as he thought, of sitting on an uncomfortable bench inschool. His mother attributed the deformity to his ha^dngcarried heavy weights in one hand { a ton of coal, somemonths previous, in a pail). He was immediately fitted with an iron
Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . k, came to me, March 16, 1877, with lateral died of Brights disease, mother healthy, sister also well as a boy, until about eighteen months since, whenhe began to observe that his back was getting crooked, theresult, as he thought, of sitting on an uncomfortable bench inschool. His mother attributed the deformity to his ha^dngcarried heavy weights in one hand { a ton of coal, somemonths previous, in a pail). He was immediately fitted with an iron brace, at a publicinstitution in the city, and has worn it constantly during theday, and most of the time at night also. I^otwithstanding thisconstant use of the brace, the deformity has increased until he is asseen in Photograph III., fig. 1, and he is very pale and weak—ashe says, very short-winded. Was suspended at the Academyof Medicine, before the Surgical Section, March 23, 1877, andthe plaster bandage applied, with the result as seen in fig. 2,taken shortly after by Mr. Mason, of Bellevue
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