. Weekly medical review. be over the sacrum, the resistance to be greatestjust below the central region of the dorsal curve, anddistributed all along the spine below this region, andthe power to be the forward tendencies of the upperextremities and head, so that while the body is main-tained erectly no force is exerted upon the spine at anypoint, but the least tendency to rounding the shouldersbrings a power to bear exactly opposed to the power ofdeformity, which increases automatically in proportionto the extent of the deformative force. 10On the subject of electricity in the treatment of thi
. Weekly medical review. be over the sacrum, the resistance to be greatestjust below the central region of the dorsal curve, anddistributed all along the spine below this region, andthe power to be the forward tendencies of the upperextremities and head, so that while the body is main-tained erectly no force is exerted upon the spine at anypoint, but the least tendency to rounding the shouldersbrings a power to bear exactly opposed to the power ofdeformity, which increases automatically in proportionto the extent of the deformative force. 10On the subject of electricity in the treatment of thisdisease, Stembo (Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift, Oct. 29,1888) states that although so much is written concerningtabes, yet but little appears as to its treatment. He considers electricity to be by all means the best treat-ment for tabes, and that the constant current has beenchiefly employed in Germany, England and Russia, whilethe interrupted current is used in France and also in Amer-ica. 186 WEEKLY MEDICAL I Fig. 7. Stillmans Upright Frame for Exercise during Extension of the Spine.
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