Practical observations on the prevention, causes, and treatment of curvatures of the spine : with an etching and description of an apparatus for the correction of the deformity . CARIES. On the subject of caries, it may be observed that thisdisease may occur at almost any part of the spinal column,although certain regions seem to be much more liable to itthan others. Angular curvature, it is well known, is in-finitely more common in the dorsal and the lumbar, than inthe cervical region, where, indeed, it is rarely met with ; but,in order to determine more accurately than could be done CARIES.
Practical observations on the prevention, causes, and treatment of curvatures of the spine : with an etching and description of an apparatus for the correction of the deformity . CARIES. On the subject of caries, it may be observed that thisdisease may occur at almost any part of the spinal column,although certain regions seem to be much more liable to itthan others. Angular curvature, it is well known, is in-finitely more common in the dorsal and the lumbar, than inthe cervical region, where, indeed, it is rarely met with ; but,in order to determine more accurately than could be done CARIES. 113 by any other means, the relative frequency with whichcaries occurs in different regions of the spine, the author hasexamined the specimens of this disease, contained in a largenumber of the Metropolitan and Provincial AnatomicalMuseums, to which he has been kindly permitted of sixty-nine cases of this species of disease, in whichthere was more or less caries of the vertebrae, it existedtwice in the cervical re-gion, twenty-four times in thedorsal, and twenty in the lumbar region; simultaneouslyin the cervical and dorsal region twice, and in thedorsal and lu
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