An appeal for the sake of man and of medicine / by George M. Gould.

  • Gould, George Milbrey, 1848-1922.
Date:
1909
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: An appeal for the sake of man and of medicine / by George M. Gould. 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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    vertebrae form part of the column; ignored by the scientists the osteopath is founding a philosophy upon the ignored part! In a majority of cases lateral spinal curvature is caused by the habitually morbid writing posture—produced by righthandedness and righteyedness (in the righthanded, by left- handedness in the lefthanded), whereby the head and body are wrenched to one side and in several ways distorted. The all- important seeing what is being written is impossible without this back-wrenching, life-wrecking deformatory process—impos- sible if the child follows the advice of school teachers and writing masters. In madly and exclusively seeking after the infinites- imally little the pathologists have utterly missed the grossest and most common of all gross lesions of the body, the kinked, curved, vertebral column. The Prevention? Give to the little pa- tient with astigmatically-caused head- tilting, spectacles correcting his ametropia, and his head will be erect and his back will not become curved. Place the writing paper twelve or fourteen inches from the eye, opposite the right arm and shoulder of the squarely-placed and erect-bodied pupil, and on a desk slanted at an angle of 30 or more degrees, and there will be no need and no practice of functionally-curved
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