Observations on the symptoms and treatment of the diseased spine, more particularly relating to the incipient stages; with some remarks on the consequent palsy / By Thomas Copeland.

  • Thomas Copeland
Date:
1815
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Credit: Observations on the symptoms and treatment of the diseased spine, more particularly relating to the incipient stages; with some remarks on the consequent palsy / By Thomas Copeland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    variously deranged, the cause of this de¬ rangement is seldom discovered, till the incurvation has taken place. The progress is, however* usually more rapid in chil¬ dren, from the greater vascularity and sensibility of these parts at the early periods of life. When a ligament# is in a state of inflammation, its bulk is considerably en¬ larged, and its enlargement must produce a corresponding pressure on all the sur¬ rounding parts. In situations where this * The fibro-cartilaginous substance interposed be® tween the vertebrae, is neither, properly, cartilage nor ligament, but partaking of the nature of both; and 1 am not aware that its habits of disease are materially different from them, except that it is more readily con® verted into bone than ligament. Those who are familiar with the veterinary art, are well aware how often the intervertebral substance is ossified in aged horses. But I also include the external covering of the medulla spinalis, under the idea of a ligamentous membrane, and 1 have seen some cases in which a thickening of this membrane has been the cause of paralytic symptoms. B 2
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