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Excerpt from Rules and Regulations of the New-York Surgeon's Bandage Institute: With Remarks Upon the Use of Bandages in the Cure of Curvature of the Spine, Club-Feet, &C
Another mode of treatment for the cure of distortion of the spine is the stretching process by apparatus construct ed for that purpose; which is in all instances injurious, in proportion to the extent of its use, as it is also a law of the animal economy, that to extend a muscle, and thus keep it upon the stretch, without permitting it to contract at frequent intervals, exhausts its tone most rapidly; hence, the same objections may be advanced to this treatment' as to that of depriving the muscle of its wonted action, -they are equally pernicious in effect.
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