. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . NATUUAL SPINE. MIBCUBVATUB* A simple form of spinal distortion is that in which stooping only if UlJRVATUKE OF THE SPINK. 515 caused. Fig. 94 represents the body in a natural and healthful posi-tion, while fig. 95 exhibits the opposite state of things. The spinalcolumn is bent forward in its upper part, contracting the chest andgiving to the body an unnatural bending forward. A very common form of spi


. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . NATUUAL SPINE. MIBCUBVATUB* A simple form of spinal distortion is that in which stooping only if UlJRVATUKE OF THE SPINK. 515 caused. Fig. 94 represents the body in a natural and healthful posi-tion, while fig. 95 exhibits the opposite state of things. The spinalcolumn is bent forward in its upper part, contracting the chest andgiving to the body an unnatural bending forward. A very common form of spinal curvature is that which we see amongyoung girls at boarding school, a compound lateral curvature as it iscalled. At one part the spine bends to the right, and at another to theleft; the trunk is thus rendered crooked, and one of the shouldersthrown upward out of its place, while the opposite one is brought in acorresponding degree downward. Fig. 96 represents a curvature ofthis kind. Fig. 96. Fig.


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