Excerpt from Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. 12: For 1895 In very many cases this simple plan of giving rest to the spinal column was attended with very satisfactory results, especially where the disease was in the cervical region, in which location, if the head and neck had been well extended while the plaster bandages were applied, and retained in this position till the plaster was set, the weight of the head was removed from the neck and supported by the shoulders by the closely fitting plaster-cast, and at the same time the whole spine was absolutely immovable that is, no movements could take place between the sepa rate bones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.