The mechanical treatment of angular curvature or, Pott's disease of the spine : read before the New York State Medical Society, at its fifty sixth annual meeting, at Albany, Feb. 3d, 4th, and 5th, 1863, and printed in the Society's transactions / by Charles Fayette Taylor.

  • Taylor, Charles Fayette, 1827-1899.
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[1863]
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Credit: The mechanical treatment of angular curvature or, Pott's disease of the spine : read before the New York State Medical Society, at its fifty sixth annual meeting, at Albany, Feb. 3d, 4th, and 5th, 1863, and printed in the Society's transactions / by Charles Fayette Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    firmly held together by the strong ligaments attaching the spinous processes, as well as by the powerful spinal muscles. To make this important principle still more clear, let us suppose A in figure 3 to be a simple rod of equal flexibility through its entire length. ]f force be applied, it will bend through its entire length, as shown at B. But suppose it be weak- ened in one point, as in C, then the flexion would not take place through the whole length, as in B, but only at the weakened point, as seen at D; so that all force applied and all motion given to either end does not affect those portions between the. ends and the weakened part, but is imme- diately and wholly transferred to the more flexible point, which is thus obliged to sustain the whole force. This is a true and exact illustration of the 1*