Excerpt from The Correct Principles of Treatment for Angular Curvature of the Spine Especial attention is invited to the fact (which is presented with the utmost confidence) that pain and tenderness in the back, which are described as early symptoms in all the systematic works on surgery, are almost never present, - the first mani festation of the existence of the disease being pain on the anterior aspect of the trunk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.