A treatise on orthopedic surgery . Spondylitis deformans, illus-trating the characteristic deform-ity. Age of the patient, thirtyyears. Spine rigid, with the ex-ception of the occipitoaxoid artic-ulation. Duration two years;cause unknown. No joints Spondylitis deformans in a child. The last class of limited spondylitis is more often seen inyoung adults from tv^enty to forty years of age, and in at least80 per cent, of the cases the patients are males. Symptoms.—In the ordinary cases there is usually an acuteonset from which the patient dates the beginning of his trouble, ^ Beebtere
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . Spondylitis deformans, illus-trating the characteristic deform-ity. Age of the patient, thirtyyears. Spine rigid, with the ex-ception of the occipitoaxoid artic-ulation. Duration two years;cause unknown. No joints Spondylitis deformans in a child. The last class of limited spondylitis is more often seen inyoung adults from tv^enty to forty years of age, and in at least80 per cent, of the cases the patients are males. Symptoms.—In the ordinary cases there is usually an acuteonset from which the patient dates the beginning of his trouble, ^ Beebterew, Neurol. Centralbl., vol. ii., p. 426. Senator, Berlin, , November 20, 1897. NON-TUBEBCULOUS AFFECTIONS OF TEE SPINE. 137 often so-called lumbago, followed by a gradually increasing stiff-ness of the spine and accompanying deformity. The patientcomplains of stiffness, weakness, pain in the loins, and of painradiating forward along the ribs; sometimes of weakness in thelimbs, headache, nervousness, and the like—symptoms that maybe explained in part by the inflammatory process and by impli-cation of the nerve roots, and in part by an accompanying neu-rasthenia. The direct symptoms are increased by jars, whichare exaggerated by the inela
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