Farther remarks on the useless state of the lower limbs, in consequence of a curvature of the spine : being a supplement to a former treatise on that subject / by Percivall Pott, F.R.S. surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

  • Pott, Percivall, 1714-1788.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Farther remarks on the useless state of the lower limbs, in consequence of a curvature of the spine : being a supplement to a former treatise on that subject / by Percivall Pott, F.R.S. surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE Difeafe, of which I am to fpeak, is a difeafe of the Spine, producing an al- teration in its natural figure, and not un- frequently attended with a partial, or a total lofs of the power of ufing, or even of moving, the lower limbs. From this laft circumftance, (the lofs of the ufe the limbs) it has in general been called a Palfy, and treated as a paralytick affection j to which it is in almoft every refpect perfectly unlike. The occafion of the miftake is palpable -} the patient is deprived of the ufe of his legs, and has a deformed incurvation of the Spine; the incurvation is fuppofed to be caufed by a diflocation of the vertibra?; the difplaced bones are thought to make an unnatural prelfure on the fpinal marrow, and a prelfure on that being very likely to produce