Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . 112.—Lateral Spinal Curvature. Same case as Fig. 111. Sideview. (Sheffield.) preclude the fact that faulty posture and encumbrance of one-hall of the body hasten to aggravate the curvature. Less fre-quent causes are obliquity of the pelvis (, shortening of static-one lower extremity from birth or postnatal disease); uni- ,,.,,..,, ,ticlateral paralysis (, poliomyelitis, progressive muscularatrophy); unilateral immobility of the thorax (, protractedexten
Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . 112.—Lateral Spinal Curvature. Same case as Fig. 111. Sideview. (Sheffield.) preclude the fact that faulty posture and encumbrance of one-hall of the body hasten to aggravate the curvature. Less fre-quent causes are obliquity of the pelvis (, shortening of static-one lower extremity from birth or postnatal disease); uni- ,,.,,..,, ,ticlateral paralysis (, poliomyelitis, progressive muscularatrophy); unilateral immobility of the thorax (, protractedextensive pleuritic exudation or adhesions); and unilateralsinking of the thorax from traumatism or operations (, Cicatricial :;s( COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. multiple fractures of ribs, resection of ribs in pyothorax ). Very congenital, rarely scoliosis is congenital in nature, wben, as a rule, it isassociated with other congenital malformations. Scoliosis is manifested first by elevation of one shoulder, High and later by prominence of one hip and scapula on the same side and gradually increasing convexity of the spinal column. Fig. 113.—Rachitic scoliotic skeleton. (Grandin, Jarman and Marx.) and side. With further progress of the deformity, the spinalurvature. column presents two curves, in the shape of the letter S (see Figs. 115 and 110)—the primary curve, which is usually in the dorsal region, and the secondary or compensatory curve, usually in the lumbar region. Bad cases are occasionally complicated also byLordosis, lordosis, deformity of the thorax and displacement of the heart and lungs, but are otherwise free from constitutional symptoms. Fortunately, nowadays, with the greater attention being paid to the general health of children, these dreadful deformi- SCOLIOSIS. 385 ties are very rarely encountered. Many cases come underthe care of the physician in the first stage of the disease whichordinarily yields to massage, calisthenics, fresh air, ample calisthenics,nutr
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