An essay on curvatures and diseases of the spine : including all the forms of spinal distortion / ... by R. W. Bampfield ... Ed. by J. K. Mitchell.

  • Bampfield, R. W. (Robert William), -1827.
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1845
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    AN ESSAY CUEYATURES AND DISEASES OE THE SPINE. Hie patet ingeniis campus, certusque mcrenti Stat favor, ornatur propriis industria donis. CHAPTER I. Sect. I. — General Anatomical Observations. The sublime privilege of standing erect, with the eyes directed to the star-decked vault of heaven, has been exclusively granted to man, and confers on him peculiar advantages and dignity. To preserve to him this valuable attitude.'the all-wise Creator has con- structed the spine like a pyramid, differing, indeed, from tlie mo- tionless piles of architecture, for its mechanism is inimitable : still, from its shape, it has been long compared to two pyramids with a common base ; but the upper one, that is formed of the twenty- four true vertebras, by which the several motions of the trunk of the body are performed, is the particular subject of this disserta- tion, because it is the seat of the diseases ari€ deformities intended to be discussed and treated of. The general cultivation and study of anatomy render it unneces- sary to enter into a minute anatomical description of the spinal column; it will be almost sufficient to observe, that it is composed of twenty-four joints, forming a canal for inclosing the medulla spinalis and its membranes, which are moveable, strongly conjoined by ligaments and intervertebral substance, and, as a whole, admit of considerable flexion forwards, of a small degree backwards, and^ of some extent of lateral motion ; but, by whatever causes a deflec-' tion is made from the straight or erect position, adequate moving
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