Further observations on the lateral or serpentine curvature of the spine : and on the treatment of contracted limbs with an enquiry into the effects of various exercises, and other means which are used to prevent or cure these deformities; being a supplement to the work On distortions of the spine, and bones of the chest / by John Shaw.

  • Shaw, John.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Further observations on the lateral or serpentine curvature of the spine : and on the treatment of contracted limbs with an enquiry into the effects of various exercises, and other means which are used to prevent or cure these deformities; being a supplement to the work On distortions of the spine, and bones of the chest / by John Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    girl may not be able to speak, although she can swallow with ease, or she may have the power of speech without that of swallowing ; or she may make a constant barking noise without any accompanying symptom of cold, or of inflammation of the throat. Such cases are certainly very perplexing, and as they most frequently occur in girls who are sometimes a little fanciful, they are often suspected to be feigned. But since it has been ascertained that the several functions are regulated by separate nerves, it cannot appear extraor- dinary that one may be disturbed while the others continue right. Such cases have been generally called hysterical, and this name is, perhaps, as applicable as any other; but I repeat, that scarcely on any occasion when a girl has symptoms of a spasmodic affection, are we warranted in alleging that she is feigning, and certainly not unless we can show that the symptoms are incom- patible with the facts already discovered regarding the functions of the several nerves. I have now a terrier which has the same spasmodic twitching of the muscles of the side of the mouth as- that which is