On deformities of the chest and spine / Illustrated by plates. By William Coulson.

  • William Coulson
Date:
1837
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Credit: On deformities of the chest and spine / Illustrated by plates. By William Coulson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    while writing or drawing. [But this also raises the right shoulder.] The fifth, the habit of sleeping on a soft bed and with a high pillow. [But this likewise raises the right shoulder.] The sixth, the more fre- quent use of the right than of the left arm. [But this too can act only by raising the right shoulder.] And, lastly, I would assign as a cause of curvature most of the attempts that are made to correct the figure, or to model it into a certain form. [But these attempts owe their existence only to the same ignorance which Mr. Shaw here displays of the fact, that it is the one-sidedness with which almost all the acts of life are performed, that is the general cause of this deformity. ] I have dwelt thus long on the mistake of Mr. Shaw, because, if the cause of deformity be misunderstood, its cure is not likely to be well conducted.