Observations on the causes and early symptoms of defects in the form of the spine, chest and shoulders, and on the means of correcting them: with remarks on the different methods pursued in this country and on the continent, in the treatment of distortions ... / By John Shaw.

  • John Shaw
Date:
1827
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Credit: Observations on the causes and early symptoms of defects in the form of the spine, chest and shoulders, and on the means of correcting them: with remarks on the different methods pursued in this country and on the continent, in the treatment of distortions ... / By John Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This plate contains exact copies of the lines made by marking the skin over the spinous processes in the man- ner described at p. 112. No. 1, Shows the curvature of the spine after the patient had submitted for several months to the French system of extension: on comparing this with the cast taken before the plan of treatment was commenced, the distortion appeared to have become worse instead of _better.. See p. 121. 2. Shows the state of the spine of a patient who had for several years worn the collar made by Callam, described at p.36. The mother assured me that she was quite straight at ten years of age, and that there was only a little inequality in the size of the shoulders before the invisible back was put on. Implicit reliance had, unfortunately for the patient, been placed on the promises of the instrument-maker, that he would make the figure quite straight in due time. Most absurd stories are often related regarding the success of certain plans of treatment, and even where the patients’ names are given, the statements are often at variance with the facts. So flattering a description had been given of the good effects of this instrument on the young lady whose spine is here marked, that two pa- tients whom I have since attended were induced to sub- mit to it. One of them became so distorted and so weak, while wearing the instrument, that it was neces- sary to fix it on the thighs by two rods, in addition to the circle round the pelvis. 3. This is an exact copy of the impression taken from the spine of the young lady who was treated in the man- ner described at p. 27. 4.4. The patient from whom these lines were taken was between seventeen and eighteen. The first was K 2
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