Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . TREATxMENT OF CASES. 105 Case II.—Dr. Y,, of Orange County, New York, aged 28,very pale and delicate, never had been robust, began to developlateral curve when about 12 years of age, while attendingschool. Yarious braces were worn without much benefit, butcontinued to be used, as he was unable to attend to his businessv/ithout some support. Since his entrance into the medicalprofession, nearly every new device invented to cure lateralcurvature has been brought to him, and fairly te
Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . TREATxMENT OF CASES. 105 Case II.—Dr. Y,, of Orange County, New York, aged 28,very pale and delicate, never had been robust, began to developlateral curve when about 12 years of age, while attendingschool. Yarious braces were worn without much benefit, butcontinued to be used, as he was unable to attend to his businessv/ithout some support. Since his entrance into the medicalprofession, nearly every new device invented to cure lateralcurvature has been brought to him, and fairly tested, but with-out any improvement in his case, although the instrumentswere applied with so much power as to excoriate the skin(fig. 1, Plate II.). He was self-suspended before the SurgicalSection of the Atademy of Medicine in New York, on March 23,1877 (fig. 2, Plate II.), and the plaster bandage applied (fig. 3,Plate II.) with the result as seen in fig. 4, Plate II. By com-paring it with (fig. 2, Plate II.), it will be observed that his formhas not been retained in the improved position which self-suspe
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