An essay on curvatures and diseases of the spine, including all the forms of spinal distortion : to which the Fothergillian Gold Medal was awarded by the Medical Society of London and presented, at a special meeting, on the 3rd of May, 1824 : with some additions / By R.W. Bampfield.
- Bampfield, R. W. (Robert William), -1827.
- Date:
- 1824
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on curvatures and diseases of the spine, including all the forms of spinal distortion : to which the Fothergillian Gold Medal was awarded by the Medical Society of London and presented, at a special meeting, on the 3rd of May, 1824 : with some additions / By R.W. Bampfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![AN ESSAY ON CURVATURES AND DISEASES or THE SPINE. Hie patet ingeniis campus, certusque merenti Stat favor, ornatur propriis industria donis. CHAPTER I. Sect. I.— General Anatomical Obsei'vations. THE] sublime privilege of standing erect, with the eyes directed to the star-decked vault of Heaven, has been exclusively granted to man, and confers on him peculiar advantages and dignity. To preserve to him this valuable attitude, the all-wise Creator has con structed the spine like a pyramid, differing, indeed, from the motionless piles of architecture, for its me- chanism is inimitable: still, from its shape, it has been long compared to two pyramids with a com- mon base ; but the upper one, that is formed of the twenty-four true vertebrae, by which the several mo- tions of the trunk of the body are performed, is the particular subject of this dissertation, because it is the seat of the diseases and deformities intended to be discussed and treated of. a](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24927703_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
