Livestock Diseases Affecting Public Health

Abstract

proper corset worn in the day time; others of this group are benefited by procedures which tend to minimize the extreme flexion these rigid backs are subjected to when sleeping in beds with soft mattresses and relaxed springs.When a case which seemingly belongs to the postural group does not get relief at once from proper corsets, one should, before accepting demonstrable pelvic pathology as a probable cause, consider the possibility of a true arthritic condition, this to include also that intangible of intangibles, the sacro-iliac. The kneechest position over a period of several weeks is a valuable addition to the treatment of the abdominal aspects of these cases. With the correction of the postural fault, and excluding arthritis, a backache persisting, one is reasonably justified to proceed on the theory that some definite pelvic pathology is its cause. If the displacement is suspected, knee-chest packs should be tried before resorting to surgery, for the backache which will be cured by a suspension will almost invariably be temporarily relieved by this knee-chest treatment.Surgeons generally now insist on some sort of surgical corset after abdominal operations. It is a reasonable question whether the relief some patients have after suspension operations may not in large part be due to this corset, rather than the operation. A sufficient number of cases have been observed to have recurrent symptoms after operative treatment, when their special corsets are worn out, to prove this a fact in certain cases at least.