Orthopraxy : the mechanical treatment of deformities, debilities, and deficiencies of the human frame / by Henry Heather Bigg.

  • Bigg, Henry Heather, 1826-1881.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Orthopraxy : the mechanical treatment of deformities, debilities, and deficiencies of the human frame / by Henry Heather Bigg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    FIEST EDITIOK In this handbook an attempt has been made to bring together^ in a systematic manner, and with reference to a special object, four works, which I have published at different periods.^ Some things have been modified, many added, and all recast, so that the book is not so much a renovation or reproduction as a new work. The object undertaken is that of claiming for Mechanical Therapeutics recognition as an independent branch of the healing art, and showing, by reference to the gradual but perfected development of mechanical science in its relation to the treatment of deformities, deficiencies, and debilities of the human frame, how just a ground exists for advancing * ' On Artificial Limbs: their Construction and Application/ 1855. ' Localized Movements : or Muscular Exercises, combined with Mecha- nical Appliances for the Treatment of Spinal Curvature and other Deformities.' 1859. ' On the Mechanical Appliances necessary for the Treatment of Defor- mities.' 1862. 'Description of a New Artificial Leg invented by Dr. Bly, of America.' 1864. b