The extraordinary case of Sarah Hawkes : one of extreme deformity, cured by a method founded upon simple principles / [Edward Harrison].

  • Harrison, Edward, 1759-1838.
Date:
1832 [i.e. 1833]
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Credit: The extraordinary case of Sarah Hawkes : one of extreme deformity, cured by a method founded upon simple principles / [Edward Harrison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    boast of numerous patrons ; though all of them have not the candour to acknowledge the quarter to which their obligations are due. II. —A professional friend of the writer who had personally witnessed the great and important change in this girl, as well as the nature of the treatment, reported that several practitioners, to whom he en¬ deavoured to explain it, denied his statement, and unanimously declared that remedial changes in the mis-shapen spine are impossible, under whatever management. III. —From a third quarter I have learnt, that one of the drawings having been shewn to several medical men, who could not deny the fact of improvement, they signified that the vertebrae must have been soft, or imperfectly ossified, otherwise no contrivance could have wrought any alteration in their arrange¬ ment : and this I understand to be the explanation generally given where the facts are admitted. Let us inquire into the truth of this allegation. The vertebrae being naturally covered with strong fleshy muscles and ligaments it is impossible to discover exactly, at any time, what may be their precise condition ; we must, therefore, restrict ourselves to conjecture, or to probabilities. Nevertheless those who have daily watched the changes and witnessed the proceedings are more likely to arrive at just conclusions than entire strangers both to the patient