Practical remarks on the causes, nature, and treatment of deformities of the spine, chest, and limbs, muscular weakness, weak joints, muscular contractions, and stiff joints : containing the results of the author's experience, and showing the advantages derived from the modes of treatment which he has recently introduced / by Joseph Amesbury.

  • Amesbury, Joseph, 1795-1864.
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1840
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    CONTENTS. [The Cases and Figures are arranged in numerical order.] INTRODUCTION. Structure of Bone, 1—3; Of Ligaments, 3, 4; Of the Skeleton, 4—6; Of the Muscles, 6, 7 ; Of the Nerves, 7, 8 ; General Remarks on the Nature of Deformities, fyc, 8—12; General Remarkson the usual Modes of Treatment, \*2 ; Illustrative Cases, 13. Principles of treatment in lateral curvature—common modes of treatment—confinement on the back, 14—16; objections—modifications of this treatment—objections—usual supports, 16; objections—air and exercise—examples, 17; inference—objections, 18; lateral curvature, arising during the progress of disease—treatment after diseased action has subsided—common cause of unsuccessful treatment in cases of deformity, 19; importance of mechanical aid— usual modes unsuccessful, 20 : General remarks on the means employed by the Author, 21 ; prejudice against the use of apparatus arising from their inadequacy—other means may be suc- cessful, 22 ; in cases of spinal curvature—the Author's Patent Exercising Plane, 23 ; used with the Author's Patent Spine Support, 24 ; stiff joints, weak joints, &c.—mechanical aid the most important part of the treatment, 25, 26. CHAPTER I. Curvatures of the Spine. SECTION I. Of Lateral Curvature. Of the Causes and Nature of Curvature without Disease in the affected parts. Causes—partial muscular weakness—diminished nervous energy, 27 ; functional derangement in the nerves—from various causes—affecting the muscles—case—muscles of a limb may be equally affected—difference in the strength of the muscles sometimes slight—great, with deficiency in size, 28; unequal length of the lower limbs affect the spinal column—injurious effects of padding to hide the deformity—lateral curvature occurs in the delicate and robust—in all classes, especially in the higher and middle classes—causes—habits of life, 29 ; some modes of dressing favour the production of curvature—number and extent of curves, 30; lateral curvature with torsion, or the spiral twist—commencement—lateral curvature rarely arises from disease in b 2