On spinal weakness and spinal curvatures, their early recognition and treatment / by W.J. Little.

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1868
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Credit: On spinal weakness and spinal curvatures, their early recognition and treatment / by W.J. Little. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a child of ten years old. Both recovered within a few weeks after admission, by means of tonic diet and regimen, and the favourable social and moral influence of a well-regulated hospital upon such forms of nervous disease. The hospital cases appeared allied to tetanic pleurosthotonos (chronic). Diagnosis was not dilScult in any of these cases. In none did secondary changes in the form of ribs exist. The neurose character did not affect the nutrition and development of parts, after the manner of ordinary lateral curvature. Pakalttic Lateral Curvature. In my treatise on the Deformities of the Human Frame (p. 360), I have described a severe form of lateral spinal dis- tortion, due to extreme paralysis of muscles of the trunk and lower extremities; the act of sitting unsupported, and that of locomotion, being quite impossible. The paralysis and result- ing deformity were incurable. I have in this treatise (pp. 35, 72) noticed the effect of slighter hemiplegic paralysis upon tlie spine. Wry-Neck Spinal Curvature. Lateral curvature of the cervico-dorsa] region, from wiy neck, reaches sometimes a degree of importance which justifies special attention to it, as well as to the cm-e of the wry neck on which it depends. In slight cases of wry neck, the spinal distortion is cured spontaneously by the means which cure the wry neck; but in long-standing adult cases, a persevering course of gymnastic training and education of the neck and shoulder muscles is necessary to cm-e. It is only when the individual who has been cured of severe wry neck has an uncommon i)ride of personal appearance, so much so as not to be oblivious of the shoulder and spine deformity when he con- templates his improved appearance in front, that he manifests sufficient energy to overcome that which is visible behind. In
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