Lateral curvature of the spine : its causes, nature, and treatment / by R.W. Tamplin.

Date:
1852
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Credit: Lateral curvature of the spine : its causes, nature, and treatment / by R.W. Tamplin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cases daily walking exercise should be taken; and, as soon as the back is straight, if the circumstances of the patient permit, horse exercise, with the use of the instrument at the same time. I have found great advan- tage from the adoption of this plan. Objections have been raised to the use of the band round the pelvis, from the supposi- tion that pressure upon that part would inter- gentleman then used to pull the head with such force as, to use the patient’s expression, she thought would have broken her neck. Then pressed with a steel roller upon the spine. After this ordeal, shields were applied, and laced on with stays, and she was made to lie flat on her back, having a board to press on the projecting shoulder. Sometimes slept on the stretcher. Her health suffered severely from the treatment, which she at length gave up. For a short time resumed the erect posture, but was compelled again to have recourse to the horizontal position, for on sitting up she was seized with fainting, which compelled her to resume the horizontal posture for two years and a half before I saw her. The instrument represented in fig. 2 was applied. In two months she began to improve in health, is now able to take ordinary exercise, and slee])s better in the instrument than without it.