The mechanical treatment of angular curvature, or, Pott's disease of the spine : read before the New York State Medical Society at its fifty-sixth annual meeting, at Albany, Feb. 3d, 4th, and 5th, 1863, and printed in the society's transactions / by Charles Fayette Taylor.

  • Taylor, Charles Fayette, 1827-1899.
Date:
1865
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Credit: The mechanical treatment of angular curvature, or, Pott's disease of the spine : read before the New York State Medical Society at its fifty-sixth annual meeting, at Albany, Feb. 3d, 4th, and 5th, 1863, and printed in the society's transactions / by Charles Fayette Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taining its accustomed amount of pressure, is forced, by reason of being weaker, to receive a Fig. 1. Fig. 2. much larger amount of pressure. Thus we see in figure 2, which represents a section of the diseased spinal column, that those portions of the column above and below the diseased vertebrae act as two levers which have a common fulcrum at the point of disease, and to which every motion and concussion is transferred. These two levers are