Spinal caries (spondylitis, or, inflammatory disease of the spinal column) / by Noble Smith.

Date:
1894
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Credit: Spinal caries (spondylitis, or, inflammatory disease of the spinal column) / by Noble Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    4t Before the year 1779, all sorts of curvatures of the spine were confused together, and Percival Pott was the first surgeon to draw a clear distinction between curvature caused by the disease under consideration, and other kinds such as those usually denominated lateral. So commonly did the disease at that period progress unchecked, until paralysis of the body below the part affected took place, that Pott en- titled his work Eemarks on Palsy of the Lower Limbs Fig. 1. A typical form of Caries of the Spine. found to accompany Curvature of the Spine, &c. The de- scription given by Pott, which described caries as a distinct disease, was in time acknowledged as correct, and the term Pott's disease has since been very commonly used m de- scribing this condition. Another familiar term is Angular Curvature, and this is used in contradistinction to Lateral Curvature The term Angular Curvature has been objected to because an angle is not a curve, but I would rather object to it because so many cases of the disease occur where he deformity is not an angle. In the typical case, however, the
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