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Title: Lateral curvature of the spine and round shoulders Year: 1916 (1910s) Authors: Lovett, Robert W. (Robert Williamson), 1859-1924 Subjects: Spine Spine Spinal Curvatures Publisher: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston's Sons & Co. Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Text Appearing Before Image: oliosis,and second, by surgeons who do not believe in corsets or supports.^The former class serves only to bring the legitimate use of gymnasticsfor scoliosis into disrepute; the latter class use the gymnastics moreor less effectively, and take a pessimistic view of the results to be ^Teschner: N. Y. Med. Rec, Dec. 6, 1903; Erich: N. Y. Med. Jour.,Oct. 7, 1899. GYMNASTICS ^33 obtained in severe scoliosis. Structural scoliosis is a bone problem;a glance at the deformed column indicates that, but it has been toolargely considered and treated as a muscle problem. Until recentlythe treatment has been an indirect, intermittent, and long-continuedeffort to remedy a bony deformity by muscular means. A surgeonwould be thought very much behind the times who to-day endeav-ored to correct bony knock-knee orcongenital club-foot by muscularexercise, yet many an up-to-datesurgeon does not hesitate to advo-cate gymnastic exercise as the soletreatment of a bony deformityequally severe. The excuse for

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