Pott's disease of the spine

✍ Scribed by Sir D'Arcy Power

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1923
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 532 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800114102

✦ Synopsis

BY SIR D'ARCY POWER, K.B.E., LONDON

IX. POTT'S DISEASE OF THE SPINE.

PERCIVALL POTT published two pamphlets upon that condition of the spinal column which is now called Pott's disease. The first is a small octavo which was printed for J. Johnson, KO. '72, St. Paul's Churchyard, in 1779. It is entitled " Remarks on that kind of Palsy of the 1,owcr Limbs which is frequently found to accompany a Curvature of the Spine arid is supposed t o be caused by it ", price onc shilling and sixpence. It was translated into French by Dr. A. B. Reereiibroek soon after its appearance, and was publishcd a t Brussels. The second pamphlet by the samc publisher was 1