An essay on crookedness, or distortions of the spine : shewing the insufficiency of a variety of modes made use of for the relief in these cases; and proposing methods, easy, safe, and more effectual for the completion of their cures; with some hints for the prevention of these affections, and their disagreeable, painful, and dangerous consequences / by Philip Jones.
- Jones, Philip
- Date:
- [1788]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on crookedness, or distortions of the spine : shewing the insufficiency of a variety of modes made use of for the relief in these cases; and proposing methods, easy, safe, and more effectual for the completion of their cures; with some hints for the prevention of these affections, and their disagreeable, painful, and dangerous consequences / by Philip Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![<• t In] benefits which accrue from its ufe ; for it is welj known and univerfally allowed, that exercife ac- celerates the circulation of the blood ; invigorates the nervous fyftem ; gives firmnefs and elafticity to the mufcular fibres, and ftrength and pliancy to the limbs; promotes perfpiration, fecretion and excretion ; quickens digefHon, and is infi. nitely ferviceable in the due diftribution and falu- tary application of the nutritious fluids. But to return to our fubje£t, of all the caufes of diftortions or curvatures of the fpine, I confi- der the mollities offium, or foftnefs of the bone, as the moft general and frequent. In this cafe it is poflefled of great pliability, and will mould it- felf to any form, or bend without breaking; which will be more or lefs, according to the weight it fufpends, or fuftains ; therefore thofe in this ftate which fupport the greateft weight, are always moft bent: and indeed this caufe is fo common, that wherever we obferve a curvature, we may for the moft part fuppofe the mollities exifting as the pre- difpofing caufe. Phyfiologifts have taken great pains in order to difcover the true caufe of thefe appearances; Glys- i°N fays, there is no defect of bony matter in thefe gafes, but that it runs out of its proper direction, d 4S](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21288057_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
