Volume 2

Spinal curvature : its consequences, and its cure ... / by John B. Serny.

  • Serny, John B.
Date:
[1840]
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    labours before the public, and thereby to point out the immortality that awaits him as the first inventor of the primary source of all the success, in later times, that has been or shall be realized in the treatment of curvature of the spine. Before, and even since, Dr. Harrison’s time, every medical practitioner is aware that the treatment of spinal curvature by many, who are deemed the first surgeons, was torture, consisting of blistering, leeching, cupping, setomzing, putting esswes and mozxas in the spine or its sides. Dr. Harrison was the overturner of this cuted and reviled by those who found, as the poet Schiller says, setonizing, moxa-making, issue-forming, to make the practice of surgery, “* A good cow that gave them milk.” Dr. Harrison has now gone. Since his death many works have come from the press on the treatment of spinal curvatures: many of the authors have adopted a part of Dr. Harrison’s treatment, evidently without appreciating the principles upon which that treatment is founded: many others show, by their works, that they understand nothing of the matter; but having found that the sufferers from spinal curvatures are determined to be tortured no more, they have hastened to put themselves forward as likely to catch some one, who seeks to be cured by some other plan than torture. Zhey may learn the way of cure on their patients. The circumstances named would of themselves be quite sufficient to justify me in bringing forward the evidences of the efficacy of Dr. Harrison’s method, as practised under his sole inspection, and as practised under his and my combined inspection; and when, to these, I can add cases of cure performed by myself, by following out