The History of the Treatment of Spondylitis and Scoloisis by Partial Suspension and Retention by Means of Plaster-Of-Paris Bandages - Livres de poche

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1895 Excerpt: ... Al 77/ I & 9 Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal. THE HISTORY OF THE TREATMENT OF SPONDYLITIS AND SCOLIOSIS BY PARTIAL SUSPENSION AND RETENTION BY MEANS OF PLASTER-OF-PARIS BANDAGES, Together with the Present Status of this Plan of Treatment before the Profession of the World By LEWIS A. SAYRE, M. D. When any new mode of treatment is advanced in medicine or surgery, its advocates are apt to be overenthusiastic, and many of their readers, misled by apparent brilliancy of immediate results, often fall into extravagant praise, which further investigation leads them to modify; and, at times, discoveries which have been heralded as striking boons to humanity have afterward been so completely forgotten that subsequent investigators have supposed them original when they rediscovered them for a second time, as was so admirably shown in the historical sketch of spinal supports read before you last year by Dr. Phelps. It is now twenty years since I first applied plaster-ofParis jackets for the treatment of Pott's disease and lateral Read before the New York Academy of Medicine, January 31, 1895. Copyright, 1895, By D Appleton A D Company. curvature of the spine, and when your president did me the 'ftoilor t6asjf Joe Jo, rejd » papes baforeyou, it seemed to me that liould fifid:njo.bctterJi)£,Vecupying your time than by presenting for your consideration a rSsumi of the origin of the plan, and of the opinions of the medical profession of the world at large in regard to this mode of treatment after this lapse of time. That the treatment has not received universal acceptance is plain from a reading of the medical journals, though, in my opinion, the objections which have been advanced against it are, for the most part, due to a lack of comprehension on...