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Credit: On deformities of the chest / by William Coulson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![nished, as well as the noise made by the air passing through the throat during the night. Still the Baron acknowledges that this was insuf- ficient. Six or seven years passed in this way! during which the child grew, and acquired strength remark- ably. Still the child was not perfectly formed, nor the spine perfectly straight, nor respiration perfectly free ; the chest was round and cylindrical; the vertebral column projected a little ; and respiration ivas disturbed after any fatiguing exercise. 1 then recommended the exercise of moving a weight supended to a rope passed over two pulleys by means of the superior extremities. This exercise [voluntary and active exercise, not passive pressure'] was continued during tvjo years with the same exactness as pressure had been exercised on the sternum. Two or three hours were thus spent every day, and the good effects of it were speedily manifested! The muscles of the superior members acquired strength ; those especially which are attached](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21047674_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
