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      “The object of these necropsies was to determine whether any connection existed

between minor curvatures of the spine, on the one hand, and diseased organs on

the other.”

      This author used 50 cadavers from the University of Pennsylvania.

49 of the 50 cadavers displayed minor curvatures of the spine, and 1 cadaver

displayed the normal “slight smooth lateral curve in the thoracic spine.”

This 1 cadaver still showed “very minor visceral pathology in the segments

immediately above and below the reported curve,” at “segments which should form

compensatory curves.”

      “All [other] curves and deformities of the spine were rigid, apparently of long

duration; irreducible by ordinary manual force: extension, counter-extension,

rotation, even strong lateral movements failed to remove them or even cause them

to change their relative positions.”

Importantly, minor spinal curvatures “their association with disease of organs

belonging to the same sympathetic segment is more frequent than with gross

curves.”

      Also importantly, in the 4 spines with gross curvatures “diseased organs were not

found to belong to the same sympathetic segments as the gross curves, but were

[found at] the same sympathetic segments as the minor compensatory curvatures

above and below the greater curves.”

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