The mechanical treatment of angular curvature, or, Pott's disease of the spine : read before the New York State Medical Society at its fifty-sixth annual meeting, at Albany, Feb. 3d, 4th, and 5th, 1863, and printed in the society's transactions / by Charles Fayette Taylor.
- Charles Fayette Taylor
- Date:
- 1865
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The mechanical treatment of angular curvature, or, Pott's disease of the spine : read before the New York State Medical Society at its fifty-sixth annual meeting, at Albany, Feb. 3d, 4th, and 5th, 1863, and printed in the society's transactions / by Charles Fayette Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ol were poor Irish children, living in poverty and filth, and after an unusually long interval, during which time I have no means of knowing that they were actually wearing the instruments, they both returned with psoas abscess. I have not yet had one case of lumbar abscess which has formed after applying the instrument; and I am very certain that in many cases abscesses already incipient have been prevented from forming, and finally dissipated by arresting the diseased action in the vertebrae, in the way proposed. Figure 14 represents the form of a boy five years old, who came to me in November, 1862, from Albany, ]ST. Y. I should remark that these figures are strictly correct, measurements having been taken by laying a flexible strip of lead along the spine and marking the exact shape on pasteboard, which is then cut out, numbered, and filed away. Fm. 14. had the desired effect, for the patient has just returned after an absence of two or three months, having, in the mean time, faith- fully carried out my instructions, with the abscess two-thirds ab- sorbed, the contractions of the psoas muscles relaxed, and the patient walking quite erect!](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21158113_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
