On growth or health and diseases of youth / [A.-M. Bureaud-Riofrey].

  • Bureaud-Riofrey, A.-M. (Antoine-Martin), 1803-
Date:
1845
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Credit: On growth or health and diseases of youth / [A.-M. Bureaud-Riofrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Having practiced fifteen years in London, where I have been frequently consulted for young ladies in cases of spinal diseases, I found from experience that my young patients were seldom affected merely by spinal deviation, but were generally labouring under some malady resulting from irregularity and disorder of growth. I was consequently led to view spinal de¬ viations as a disease incidental to female youth, and connected with irregularity of growth, but the de¬ viation in itself being less important, although the most apparent. This discovery unnoticed by any other medical man enlightened my practice, and I found many diseases of youth, such as consumption, palpitations of the heart, nervous affections, presenting serious symptoms, were only false or mistaken con¬ sumption, momentary trouble of the heart, and sym¬ pathetic nervous affection, that disappeared, when the growth of an organ had effected its evolution. This useful discovery led me to avoid the energetic means
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