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

Date:
1841
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    A LECTURE. Ladies and Gentlemen, In offering to your notice some observations on the subject of spinal affections, I do not profess to instruct you how to distinguish one from another, the several diseases to which the spinal column is liable, and by which it is often attacked ; nor is it my intention to attempt to lay before you, in detail, the various measures necessary to be adopted for the effectual treatment of these affections. To dis- cover the precise nature of a disease and to devise appropriate means for effecting its cure, are duties peculiar to the physician, and by those only who are conversant with the structure of the human form, who have made themselves acquainted with the several organs of the body, in a state of health, and have studied them in their diseased states also, can the precise nature of any affection be discovered or ap])ropriate treatment for effecting its removal be prescribed. My object is not therefore to make ill- mstructed, or superficial, non-professional doctors of you, but rather to call your attention to a class of