. 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 . e styled truly, the fash-ionable disease. Nineteen out of every twenty of all the daughtersof the so-called fashionable world are more or less crooked in thispart. Either the spine curves too much backward or forward, or toone side or to both. Bit it is not the spine alone that is at fault; thewhole system is weak, and thi reason why the spine becomes curvedis, because it has the whole body to support
. 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 . e styled truly, the fash-ionable disease. Nineteen out of every twenty of all the daughtersof the so-called fashionable world are more or less crooked in thispart. Either the spine curves too much backward or forward, or toone side or to both. Bit it is not the spine alone that is at fault; thewhole system is weak, and thi reason why the spine becomes curvedis, because it has the whole body to support, and being improperlynourished, it bends under its load. It is very important to rememberthese facts, because, in treating the ailment, we see how worse thanuseless all merely local and mechanical appliances must of necessityhe. Those who are forever tinkering the human body with their braces, and supporters, at the same time using no efficient meansfor the betterment of the system at large, are either infamous villains orignorant quacks. I do not say, mark, that mechanical helps are neverto oe used. They are sometimes a help in connection imth other appro-vriate means. Fig. 94. Fig.
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