Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . is supported by the arms, diminishes the curve about half. ^ Therotation is imchanged; the spine seems consolidated; the an-terior spinous processes of the ilium are nearly level. Up to this time I had not tried self-suspension by the head andarms, in cases of lateral curvature ; and the result of all treat-ment by braces of different kinds that I had employed was so un- I did not at that time suspend the patients from the head, orallow them to suspend themselves, as 1 now do. TREA
Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . is supported by the arms, diminishes the curve about half. ^ Therotation is imchanged; the spine seems consolidated; the an-terior spinous processes of the ilium are nearly level. Up to this time I had not tried self-suspension by the head andarms, in cases of lateral curvature ; and the result of all treat-ment by braces of different kinds that I had employed was so un- I did not at that time suspend the patients from the head, orallow them to suspend themselves, as 1 now do. TREATMENT OF CASES. 109 satisfactory that I refused to treat any cases that were so faradvanced as this was, and was glad to send them to any one whothous^ht he was more successful than I had been. I there-fore sent her to Dr. Banning, who applied one of his braces,see fig. 58. This she wore constantly day and night for more Fig. oi. eUAYLE (^LBAV/. than a year, Dr. Banning himself attending to the differentadjustments of it as occasion requii-ed. She returned to me April 1, 1876, more crooked than whenI last saw her (see figs. 59 and 60). When she was suspended,the curvature became very greatly diminished (see fig. 61). April 2, 1876.—Applied plaster jacket (see fig. 62), whichwas worn until June 6, 1876, when it was removed, on accountof her increased size making it too tight. She was self-suspendedfor a few minutes every day until June 10, when a new jacketwas applied. Her position was very much improved. 110 KOTAEY-LATEEAL CUEVATUEE OF THE SPINE. She has continued practising self-suspension twice every day,for a few minutes at a time during the past year, has had twonew applications of the jacket; and when I saw her last, in May1877, she was quite erect, the shoulders even—simply wearing anordinary corset that was fitted for her, by my advice, while she Fig. 61.
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