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 ... and Printed in the Society's Transactions

Excerpt from 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 The disease known as Pott's Disease of the Spine is of so frequent occurrence, that it is re markable that there has been so little advance made toward its successful treatment, since the time when Dr. Percival Pott first drew the attention of the profession to its pathology; and though a disease so common that we see the deformity which it produces almost every time we enter an assembly or go into the streets, yet I have observed that these cases are too apt to be avoided by the general practitioner; the physician contenting himself by sending the patient to an instrument maker, for one of the man)r apparatuses to be found in the shops, and too often leaving the whole matter of kind, form, and fit to the selection of the mechanic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.