Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . by Mason of Bellevue). This muscle remaining equally tenseafter some minutes of suspension, and showing no tendency toelongate, I simply pressed my finger upon it, when he immedi-ately had a spasm of almost all the muscles in his body-—show-ing reflex irritability from contractured tissue, and that it could I had not at the time tried self-susjpensiori. TKEATMENT OF CASES. 119 not be elongated or stretched^ and must therefore be severedeither by rupture or section.^ Fig. 69,. 1 For
Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage . by Mason of Bellevue). This muscle remaining equally tenseafter some minutes of suspension, and showing no tendency toelongate, I simply pressed my finger upon it, when he immedi-ately had a spasm of almost all the muscles in his body-—show-ing reflex irritability from contractured tissue, and that it could I had not at the time tried self-susjpensiori. TKEATMENT OF CASES. 119 not be elongated or stretched^ and must therefore be severedeither by rupture or section.^ Fig. 69,. 1 For a fuller explanation of this principle of reflex spasm whenpoint pressure is made on stretched contractwed tissues, see authorswork on Orthopaedic Surgery (Appleton & Co., New York, and , 1876). 120 KOTAEY-LATEEAL CUEVATTIEE OF THE SPINE. I therefore divided the entire latissimus just opposite thelower angle of the scapula, subcutaneously, while he was sus-pended, and almost instantly the spine became nearly straight. The wound was immediately hermetically closed, and the-patient removed from the swing and laid upon his bed, withweights to each foot, and axillary bands going over the head Fig. 70.
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