Excerpt from The Phenomena of Spinal Irritation: And Other Functional Diseases of the Nervous System Explained
The subject of Spinal Affections in general is one which, for many years, has been of surpassing interest both to the Medical Profession and the public.
At one period it was supposed that tenderness of any portion of the spinal column indicated incipient disease in the bones, in the cord, or its membranes; and thirty years have barely elapsed since these presumed spinal complaints were so common, that a young lady was considered fortunate if she escaped without an attack. The patient was commonly laid up in bed or on a sofa; leeches, or cupping-glasses, or blisters, or issues, or moxas, or setons were applied near the seat of pain; and the progress of the patient towards convalescence was measured by the effect of pressure used on the spine from time to time.
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