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Identifier: chicagomedicaljo3618unse (find matches)
Title: Chicago medical journal and examiner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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be no * I have been somewhat explicit in this article for the reason that it is too much the habit ofcertain gentlemen in large cities (not particularly in Chicago) to publish a treatment or describean apparatus full enough to show its usefulness, and to just stop short of those details that wouldenable the average reader to make any practical use of the information given. The result isobvious. The doctors in the provinces send in their cases. I fail to see the practical differ-ence between this and taking out a patent in the (ir)rtgular way. 378 CHICAGO MEDICAL JOURNAL AND EXAMINER. downward pressure. The accuracy with which it fits every ine-quality of the back makes it quite immovable. The occipital pad should now be in such a position that con-siderable force shall be required in lifting and carrying backwardthe head so as to place the occiput on the pad with the chinsomewhat elevated ; then buckle the strap over the forehead andthe apparatus is applied as represented in the cut.
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Fig. 1, occipital pad, serving as a fulcrum on which to raisethe head. Fig. 2, slots and set-screws by means of which theoccipital pad is set at the required position. Fig. 3, apron, lacedjn front. POTTS DISEASE OF THE CERVICAL VERTEBRAE. 379 The head is now firmly supported, and in such a manner thatif there should be any excess of weight not carried by the instrument, it is taken entirely by the transverse processes. I first applied this apparatus to a girl of five years, from thesouthern part of the State. On my first visit I found her sittingon the bed, supporting her head with her hands, and wastold that this had been for several weeks her almost constant po-sition. There was considerable projection of the spine of thefourth cervical vertebra ; she was pale and emaciated; exhibitednervous symptoms, and complained constantly of pain in the neckand throughout the thorax. On the application of the apparatusshe was almost immediately relieved from pain. A mild nutritivetonic treatmen

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