Spinal affections : a popular lecture on disorders and diseases of the spine ... / by Henry Crowhurst Roods.

Date:
1841
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    a])peared perfectly free from disease, as on applying firm pressure to the rest of the spinous processes no uneasiness resulted. Inflammatory action was presumed to be gomg on in the affected part, and to have reached the body of the bone, and the previous over exertion I con- sidered the cause of it. The nature of the case was explained, and the necessity of care pointed out; she was un^^^lling to leave her place and could not rest without doing so; therefore cupping glasses were applied to the back, with decided benefit, the pain having diminished considerably. At the expi- ration of a week it had increased and become as severe as before ; she was now strongly advised to submit to an appropriate course of treatment, and she deemed it prudent to follow the advice given; she was again cupped; a large bhster was afterwards applied and kept open for about a week and she was directed to remain in bed, which she did for ten days or a fortnight, after which not the slightest pain or tenderness was felt. I do not assert that this case would have terminated in caries of the vertebrse, had it not been early sub- jected to treatment; but judging from the gradual invasion and progress of the affection, the increasing pain consequent to the long continuance of the erect position of the body, its manifest inflammatory nature