Practical observations on the causes and treatment of curvatures of the spine, with ... directions for the physical culture of youth, as a means of preventing the disease ... and description of an apparatus for the correction of the deformity ... to which is added a chapter on pulmonary consumption / [Samuel Hare].

  • Hare, Samuel, 1783-1867.
Date:
[1840?]
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Credit: Practical observations on the causes and treatment of curvatures of the spine, with ... directions for the physical culture of youth, as a means of preventing the disease ... and description of an apparatus for the correction of the deformity ... to which is added a chapter on pulmonary consumption / [Samuel Hare]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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