The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . !- rack-and-pinion or screw power. The best of these mechani- 348 Fig. 515.—Spiaal Support for Lateral Curvature. \ cal contrivances for supporting tlie weight of the head and slioulders,is the apparatus represented in theaccompanying woodcut (Fig. 515).By it the projection of the rightshoulder may be gradually broughtdown, the left one raised, and theweight of the whole of the upperpart of the body supported. Bythis contrivance alone, properlyand carefully adjusted to the con-ditio
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . !- rack-and-pinion or screw power. The best of these mechani- 348 Fig. 515.—Spiaal Support for Lateral Curvature. \ cal contrivances for supporting tlie weight of the head and slioulders,is the apparatus represented in theaccompanying woodcut (Fig. 515).By it the projection of the rightshoulder may be gradually broughtdown, the left one raised, and theweight of the whole of the upperpart of the body supported. Bythis contrivance alone, properlyand carefully adjusted to the con-dition of the deformit}^, most pa-tients may be treated without thenecessit^y of any confinement what-ever ; the spine being by degreesrestored to its proper direction by-very gradually increasing the pres-sure and support of the instrument,at the same time that the generalhealth is carefullj^ attended to, andthe patient has the benefit of good air. At first the instrument needonly be worn during the da^, but after a time it should be kept on atniglit as well. In long-standing and severe casesof lateral curvature of thespine, when its flexibilitjis lost, and the projectionof
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