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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    Fig. 23 shows the natural mode of standing of a girl whose chest is well developed, and whose dress does not interfere with the free use of the body and limbs ; while Jig. 22 shows the usual position of many girls whose chests have been for years compressed by tight stays and dresses, and who are and have been always leaning on the whalebone or steel busk of their stays; the chest is concave instead of being convex, the head stooping, and the spine weak. The artist has not drawn the fashionable cri- noline, in order to show better the cha- racteristic position which is -very fre- quently to be met with. Carrying the rifle for a long time on one side, was mentioned as one of the causes by which a very slight lumbar curvature was increased. Fig. 24 shows a volunteer who appears straight, but on a close inspection we observe the right shoulder higher than the left; further, the right elbow-joint is nearer to the body than the left, and the hollow space between arm and body on the right side is smaller than on the left. These differences are produced by the lumbar curve, which is increased by the weight 24. Standing position of a of the rifle, which induces our volunteer rniriuXrilerfneiSbentto bend the lumbar part of his spine to the left. 72. SEWING. Fig. 25 shows one of the many bad positions assumed during sewing, which have this in common, that the head stoops down to the work, while the body is crooked, the right leg crossed over the left, and the right foot twisted round the left calf; thus headaches, pains in the chest, bad digestion, and other abnormal complaints, and cramps of the legs are produced, be- sides the predisposition to various deformities of the spine and