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Title: The treatment of lateral curvature of the spine : with appendix giving an analysis of 1000 consecutive cases treated by posture and exercise exclusively, without mechanical supports
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Roth, Bernard Goldthwait, Joel E. (Joel Ernest), b. 1866
Subjects: Scoliosis Scoliosis
Publisher: London : Lewis
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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of this treatment, her legs became so weakthat she had to use crutches. A year ago, after sixyears of this treatment, the surgeon gaA^e the mother tounderstand that he could not do anything more for herdaughter. Present state, January 10th, 1891 : A delicate, emaciatedyoung woman, who came tottering into my consulting-room on crutches, helped on one side by an elder sister.She is wearing a heavy steel spinal support. She, likeCase IV., has seldom had acute backache. Spine. Thereis extreme Lateral Curvature, with dorsal (upper) con-vexity to the right. See fig. 38, which is a roughsketch of her back; this shows the great prominenceof the lower angle of the right scapula and of theleft iliac crest. The antero-posterior curves of the LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE. 71 spine are much exaggerated, exhibiting what I describeas the gorilla type, with very prominent abdomen. Pigs. 39 and 10 represent the scoliosiometric tracingsof the ribs posteriorly and the erectores spinge muscles Fig. 38.
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Level of iliac crest jf-- Opper end of gluteal cleftMiss M. W., January 10th, 1891. respectively; the tracing of the ribs posteriorly presentsextreme torsion of the dorsal vertebrae. When the girlwas placed in the best possible position, her dress andspinal support were much too tight, not meeting within 72 THE TKEATMENT OF three or four inches. My prognosis was that a courseof three months daily treatment would effect all the x ** Tfe. i S improvement possible—*.<?., increase her strength andimprove her health, so that she would be able to walk LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE. 73

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