Pathological and practical observations on spinal diseases : illustrated with cases and engravings. Also, An inquiry into the origin and cure of distorted limbs / by Edward Harrison.

  • Harrison, Edward
Date:
1827
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    to participate during the progress, and cannot, there- fore, be allowed any share in the original formation. Though Mr. Pott always found disease in the liga- ments,* and sometimes in them without any apparent affection of the bones, t unaccountably overlooked them, and limited his curative indications to the morbid state of the bones. In so doing, he reasoned upon a narrow basis. Admitting his own account in its full extent, I think we are still bound to pay some regard to the ligaments. It however appears from later dissections, that the vertebral bones are not always enlarged, or otherwise dis- ordered, even when they are accompanied with a greater or less degree of deformity and crookedness of the spine.:]: Many skeletons, shewing lateral, pos- terior, and anterior curvatures, may be seen in the anatomical museums; several of .them so exceedingly misshapen as to leave no doubt of their having oc- casioned death, by interfering with the functions of the spinal marrow and the internal viscera. In some, the vertebral bones and cartilages shew no other, signs of disease than such as arise from unequal pressure: they are hard, firm, sound, and when free from pressure are of the natural size. In order to form a curvature, the bones and cartilages must ne- cessarily be fuller on the outside, and compressed ou * Pott, vol. iii. p. 427, 428, 438. f Vol. iii. p. 482; I Vol. iii. p. 483.