THE HANGING CURE.
NOVEL TREATMENT FOR A DEFORMED CHILD.
A very rare type of infantile paralysis in a girl patient at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond ■ Street, W.C., is now being subjected to an equally unusual type of treatment. , The disease, instead of being confined, as is usual, to the limbs, attacked chiefly the muscles along the spinal collimn' on one side, the results being a pronounced and permanent lateral bowing of the back. To straighten out this deformity the patient, a girl of nine, lias been for the past six weeks suspended from an overhead framework by leather loops under the armpits and under the chin. The whole weight of the lower trank and legs, falling in this way on the unsupported back, is gradually pulling tlie spine back into its normal straight position.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3324, 16 September 1911, Page 10
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137THE HANGING CURE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3324, 16 September 1911, Page 10
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