Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . This case is also represented in the frontispiece, whichis given in order to show the entire plan of treatment at aglance. The following case shows the advantage of extension and theplaster of Paris jacket over Bannings braces, which had beenpreviously worn by my ad^dce :— Case IY.—Miss Nellie Pierson, aged 15, Providence, RhodeIsland. Came to me January 30, 1875, with a very marked 108 EOTARY-LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE. rotary-lateral curvature, which her mother thought bad be
Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . This case is also represented in the frontispiece, whichis given in order to show the entire plan of treatment at aglance. The following case shows the advantage of extension and theplaster of Paris jacket over Bannings braces, which had beenpreviously worn by my ad^dce :— Case IY.—Miss Nellie Pierson, aged 15, Providence, RhodeIsland. Came to me January 30, 1875, with a very marked 108 EOTARY-LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE. rotary-lateral curvature, which her mother thought bad beendeveloped within the past year. She attributed it to sittingsideways at school, six hours daily, and taking music lessons. Her condition at that time was as seen in fig. 57, from asketch by Dr. L. M. Yale. The amount of distortion at themaximum is to the right about 1^ inches; there is very con-siderable rotation. Kaising the patient from the floor, so that the entiie weightFig. . 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
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