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 . j^MSIMM®! VI. A. ? ??.?? :??:?-,.. .-??.. ,?.? ?::?..- i,. from a Cast. CASE. 129 accompanying engraving. His mother gives the followingparticulars of the case:— 1843. June 27. W. F. aged ten years, when aninfant, although not stout, was yet a fine child and hisflesh was firm; he had the hooping cough while at thebreast, and subsequently was exceedingly ill from enlarge-ment and hardness of the abdomen. When two years
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 . j^MSIMM®! VI. A. ? ??.?? :??:?-,.. .-??.. ,?.? ?::?..- i,. from a Cast. CASE. 129 accompanying engraving. His mother gives the followingparticulars of the case:— 1843. June 27. W. F. aged ten years, when aninfant, although not stout, was yet a fine child and hisflesh was firm; he had the hooping cough while at thebreast, and subsequently was exceedingly ill from enlarge-ment and hardness of the abdomen. When two years ofage, his nurse slipped and let him fall, in consequence ofwhich he suffered so much that it was thought he could notrecover; he did, however, so far improve, that it was hopedno further ill effects would follow. At the age of threeyears he had the measles: in the spring of the followingyear, a projection of some of the upper dorsal vertebrae, withan altered form of his chest, was observed, in consequenceof the childs walking in a singular manner, holding his headbackward and having his shoulders much raised. Medicalassistance was immediately procured, but the disease pro-gressed rapidly, the spine and the sternum becoming mo
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