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.
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[1863]
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    to attain that end. And it is no small gain for these strumous cases to be able to have unre- strained contact with the fresh, out-door air. I am aware that better than all theories are a few facts, and I therefore will close this paper by relat- ing a few cases which will illustrate the treatment which I have pursued for about four years, and in nearly one hundred-cases. During all this time only two cases have had abscesses formed* after commencing the treatment; and these cases only still further illustrate the correctness of the treat- ment. In both cases there was evidence of incipi- ent psoas abscess; the disease was in the lumbar region, and in one case the deformity was very great—both thighs being so far flexed by contrac- tion of the irritated psoas muscles, that progression was extremely difficult, and with a deformity much greater than that which is shown in figure 14. There was marked relief, as usual, on applying the instrument ;* but I saw them but a few times; they ° Since writing the above, I have again seen the worst of the above-mentioned cases. When last seen there was an abscess inside of the right thigh, about the size of a common saucer. I strongly urged the friends to keep the back well supported wilh the instrument, trying to make them understand the consequences of inevitable deformity and misery if the diseased action should not be speedily checked. It seems that these admonitions have