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Title: Lectures on orthopedic surgery
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridlon, John, 1852-1936 Thomas, Hugh Owen, 1834-1891 Jones, Robert, joint author
Subjects: Orthopedics
Publisher: Philadelphia, E. Stern & Co., Inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ill be convenient to wrap two pieces of wood, four fingerslong Hnd one thick, more or less, in linen cloths, and so toapply one to each side of the dislocated vertebrae, and so withyour hands to press them against the bunching forth vertebraeuntil you force them back into their seats, just after the man-ner vou see it before delineated. (Orthopraxy. HenryHeather Bigg. 1877.) These ancient methods were long since abandonedand have only been saved from total oblivion by oc-casional mention as examples of curious and barbarousprocedures. Reference is here made to these methodsfor comparison with the work recently done by Calotand others, to be described later on in these pages. In1874 Sayre, of New York, began the treatment ofspondylitis with the use of the plaster-of-Paris jacket, 58 applied with the patient partially suspended, claimingby that means to correct the deformity in some con-siderable measure. Orthopedic surgeons in general,however, denied that the true curve or angle at the
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point of disease was in any way affected by this treat-ment, and that the only straightening of the spineeffected by it occurred in the compensatory curvesabove and below the area of disease. The recent resultsfrom forcible straightening of spinal curvatures seem 59 to demonstrate that Sayres early claims were wellfounded. Charles Fayette Taylor, ol New York, followed withclaims of gradual straightening by the antero-posteriorleverage spinal brace ; and his son, Henry Ling Taylor,has shown tracings of many cases treated with theTaylor brace and a more or less prolonged period ofrecumbency, in which some degree of straighteninghas taken place. Following the treatment recommended by the late Dr.Buckminster Brown, of Boston, we believe that one ofus (J. R.) w^as the first to report a case of cervical spon-dylitis in w^hich a well-marked angular deformity wascompletely corrected by horizontal traction, the patientbeing in bed. The attempts at gradual straightening by the leverage-brace, a

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