1827 PRAVAZ, Charles Gabriel (1791 – 1853)

Méthode nouvelle pour le traitement des déviations de la colonne vertébrale; précédée d'un examen critique des divers moyens employés par les orthopédistes modernes.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 14199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16515

1876 SAYRE, Lewis Albert (1820 – 1900)

Report on Pott’s disease, or caries of the spine; treated by extension, and the plaster of Paris bandage.

Sayre was the first to use plaster of Paris as a support for the spinal column in scoliosis and Pott’s disease. His name is eponymically linked with Sayre’s jacket, a plaster of Paris jacket applied while the patient …

GMN 4344 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5714

1877 SAYRE, Lewis Albert (1820 – 1900)

Spinal disease and spinal curvature, their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage.

Sayre’s monograph on his methods of treating tuberculosis of the spine and scoliosis is the first American surgical textbook to contain actual mounted photographs, some of which are remarkable for their artistic quali…

GMN 4344.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5717

1904 NAU, Pierre

Les scolioses congénitales.

First description of platyspondylia.

GMN 4375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5872