An essay on the prevention & rational treatment of lateral spinal curvature.

  • Roth, Mathias, 1839-1891.
Date:
1885
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Credit: An essay on the prevention & rational treatment of lateral spinal curvature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    habit, which, to use the mildest term, they are too indifferent to check in their own families. Those who wish for more information on this subject I must refer to a paper On Dress,* of which my reviewer in the Lancet says— Dr. E. insists and very properly on the ill-consequences of stays, and when the matter is seriously considered we believe that an immense amount of human suffering and even great saving of human life would be consequent upon the total dis- carding of stays. Fig. 52. The natural form of the spine. Fig. 53. Spine deformed by stays. The previous illustrations show why the capacity of breath- ing must be diminished by the deformities caused by stays and by tight lacing. * Published in the Cure and Prevention of Disease by Movements.— Groombridge & Sons.