An account of a successful method of treating diseases of the spine : with observations, and cases in illustration / by Thomas Baynton.

  • Baynton, Thomas.
Date:
1813
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Credit: An account of a successful method of treating diseases of the spine : with observations, and cases in illustration / by Thomas Baynton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    some means or other the pressm*e of the. parts above must be in many cases taken off while the cure is perfecting, and to shew that Mr. Pott Iiimself was convinced of the necessity of it, though perhaps it did not appear to him exactly in the same point of view, I must remark that in many cases of curved spines vf]\\c\\ Pott attended,//c thought it 7Lecessary to confine his patients lo bed, or to a horizontal situation during the greatest part of the cure, as they could not bear to remain in an upright position. I NEED NOT OBSERVE HOW IRKSOME THIS MUST BE, HOW IT MUST TEND TO RELAX, AND WEAKEN THE PATIENT, AND CONSE- QUENTLY TO RETARD THE CURE ; SEEING IT ONLY IN THIS LIGHT, IT MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT ANY MEANS WHICH 9