Observations on torticollis : with particular reference to the significance of the so-called hematoma of the sterno-mastoid muscle / by Royal Whitman.
- Royal Whitman
- Date:
- [1891]
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Credit: Observations on torticollis : with particular reference to the significance of the so-called hematoma of the sterno-mastoid muscle / by Royal Whitman. 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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![[Reprinted from The MEDICAL NEWS, October 24, 1891.] y 2^* OBSERVATIONS ON TORTICOLLIS. WITH PAR- TICULAR REFERENCE TO T H E S ! G N ! F ! C A N C E OF THE SO-CALLED HEMATOMA OFTHE STERNO-MASTOID MUSCLE} By royal whitman, M.D., M.R.C.S., ASSISI'ANT SUKORON TO OUT-PATIENTS, HOSPITAL FOR RUPTURRU ANN CRIPPLED, NEW YORK. Assuming that the treatment of any affection must to a great extent depend upon our appre- hension of the causes that produce it, I shall call your attention more particularly to etiology, the conclusions being influenced by clinical investiga- tion rather than by recorded theories. That the bearing of these conclusions on the cjuestion indicated by the title of this paper may be clearly understood, I quote from several of the more prominent writers on the subject. F. Busch,'-' for example, says : “ Congenital wry-neck is caused, as Stromeyer was the first to show and as is now acknowledged, almost without exception by injury to the sterno cleido-mastoid muscle at birth, and by subsequent shortening at the place of injury by scar-contraction. The deformity occurs almost ex- ' Read at the meeting of the American Orthopedic Associa- tion in Washington, September, 1891. ^ Von Ziemssen’s Handb. der allg. Thor.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22364316_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
