A probationary essay on the causes and treatment of lateral curvature of the human spine : submitted by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh when candidate for admission to their boby / by Robert Knox.

  • Robert Knox
Date:
1825
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A probationary essay on the causes and treatment of lateral curvature of the human spine : submitted by authority of the President and his Council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh when candidate for admission to their boby / by Robert Knox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by UCL Library Services. The original may be consulted at UCL (University College London)

    23/64 page 15
    CHAPTER III. ON THE CAUSES OF THE LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE. Parents the most careless seldom entirely over- look in their children the coming on of a distorted spine. They observe that the shoulder begins to grow out, that the young person walks awkwardly, that, if a boy, his clothes do not fit him, and are uniformly drawn away to the right side ; and that, if a girl, in addition to these symptoms of defor- mity, there exists more obviously in her a remark- able fulness of the right breast, and a proportion- ate elevation of the right clavicle. These appear- ances are generally first observable about the ages of eight or nine, that is, some time after the young person has been sent to school, or to some other se- dentary employment: in other words, shortly after he has been exposed to the exciting causes of the complaint. For, who are the persons most subject to a lateral curvature, and consequent distortion of the spine? Is it not those who are condemned to maintain the erect position of the trunk during the whole day, generally without the smallest interims-
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3