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 . harge her domestic duties withperfect comfort and facility. CHAPTER VII. INCURVATION OF THE SPINE. Like most of the other species of distortion alreadytreated of, the incurvation or inward curvature of the spine,has a constitutional as well as a mechanical origin, or bothcombined; when it proceeds from constitutional causes,it not unfrequently shows itself in the lower cervical andupper dorsal vertebrae, and is often
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 . harge her domestic duties withperfect comfort and facility. CHAPTER VII. INCURVATION OF THE SPINE. Like most of the other species of distortion alreadytreated of, the incurvation or inward curvature of the spine,has a constitutional as well as a mechanical origin, or bothcombined; when it proceeds from constitutional causes,it not unfrequently shows itself in the lower cervical andupper dorsal vertebrae, and is often complicated with thatpeculiar distortion of the column, denominated the rotatedor serpentine state of the spine,—a form which seems tocombine somewhat of all the varieties of distortion, ex-cept the angular. This is frequently attended with verydistressing effects upon the functions of the lungs andheart, these being prevented from freely performingtheir respective offices, producing, apparently from triflingcauses, very great disturbance in the system. Thelumbar incurvation, the consequence of a shorteningin one of the lower extremities, occasioned by long ex- 171. Mim. y f&.CoowM fumbbGlStk%7,
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