Spondylitis and rotary lateral curvature of spine : their proper treatment practically demonstrated with exhibition of cases / by Lewis A. Sayre.

  • Lewis Sayre
Date:
[1885]
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Credit: Spondylitis and rotary lateral curvature of spine : their proper treatment practically demonstrated with exhibition of cases / by Lewis A. Sayre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    greatly reduced in strength ; but after the application of the plaster corset he hegan to improve vapidly, and in a few months was able to support himself as a musician, being now a member of one of the theatre orchestras of the city.* Case III.—M. B., aged eighteen years. Patient has been blind, as a sequel of scarlet fever, since she was one year old. Curvature of the spine was first noticed in 1880, and it has continued to increase ever since. Several different kinds of braces have been worn during this time. I saw her in November of 1882, and found a well-marked double rotary lateral Fio. 22. Fio. 23. curvature. (See Fig. 22.) Partial self-suspension removed the deformity to a great extent. (See Fig. 23.) I advised appropriate gymnastic exercises, such as she has. already demonstrated to you, and also the use of the plaster cor- ' Vide, case page 505, .Sayrc's second edition of Orthopedic Surgery.
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