On the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine, and the bones of the chest, are subject : with an enquiry into the merits of the several modes of practice which have hitherto been followed in the treatment of distortions / by John Shaw.
- Shaw, John
- Date:
- 1823
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Credit: On the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine, and the bones of the chest, are subject : with an enquiry into the merits of the several modes of practice which have hitherto been followed in the treatment of distortions / by John Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![extraordinary discoveries of Mr. Charles Bel]. As these discoveries have been made public in the Transactions of the Royal Societv, and in the different Scientific Journals of the last two years, it is unneces- sary for me to give a detail of them, or to do more than to bring to the recollection of my readers, that it has been shewn that the spinal accessory nerve, which is distributed upon those muscles of the shoulder that assist in accelerated respir- ation, performs functions in every respect analogous to the office of the nerve called portio dura, which passes to the muscles of the face. When we consider the great similarity between these two nerves, both in distri- bution and in function, we can easily imagine that the spinal accessory nerve may be affected in a manner similar to the portio dura. Hitherto, there have not been so many instances of paralysis of this nerve observed as of the portio dura*; but a * See a paper by me, in the twelfth volume of the Medico Chirurgical Transactions.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21288380_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
