A preliminary paper upon the causes of lateral curvature of the spine : with the report of a case of lateral deformity due to occupation / by Newton M. Shaffer.

  • Shaffer, Newton M. (Newton Melman), 1846-1928.
Date:
1884
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Credit: A preliminary paper upon the causes of lateral curvature of the spine : with the report of a case of lateral deformity due to occupation / by Newton M. Shaffer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A PRELIMINARY PAPER UPON THE CAUSES OF LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE; WITH THE REPORT OF A CASE OF LATERAL DE- FORMITY DUE TO OCCUPATION. CLINICAL LECTURER ON ORTHOP./EDIC SURGERY, MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ; ATTENDING SURGEON IN CHARGE OF THE N. V. ORTHOPAEDIC DISPENSARY AND HOSPITAL ; ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON TO ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL, N. Y. HE great variety of opinions and theories that exist regarding the etiology and pathology of lateral curvature of the spine, with and without rotation, leads me to place upon record the following case. It presents many interesting points, and illustrates a form of curvature which, I think, has not been fully described, although the causes which produce it, in this individual case, are those most fre- quently cited by various eminent writers on the subject of scoliosis. Lateral curvature of the spine has been written upon by so many eminent men, and the subject has been so fre- quently reviewed, that it may be well, before recording the have nowhere seen that lateral curvature has been subjected to the close scrutiny which many other conditions have un- dergone. I regard this fact as indicative of the lax way in which all strictly objective conditions are regarded. If true scoliosis were accompanied by pain or by extensive destruc- Reprintecl from the Archives of Medicine, Vol. xi, No. 2, April, 1884. By newton M. SHAFFER, M.D.,