[From Frank Leslie'* Illustrated Newspaper, .New
York City.]
Probably no disease* have been *o ineffect
ively and unsatisfactorily treated as those
attacking the spine, the hip and tbe knee,
tbe reason being found in the faot tbat but
little has been aoaurately known of tbe real
nature, progress and cause of tbeee maladies.
A recent discovery, has, however, thrown
considerable light on these subjects, and
promise* to be of considerable use in tbe
treatment ef a large class of sufferers. Dr.
11. G. Davis, a physician of this city, i* the
author of this discovery. From researches
and investigations prosecuted during uany
years, be has found that wborever any joint
whatever is stiffened from anyoause, and the
I ends of the bones are oiosely pressed togetb
er by muscular nctlou, a very small area of
I each articular surface receives tbe whole
pressure, and by tbe action of a well known
I law, this pressure produce* waste, first de
I strovin-r the cartilage and then attacking tbe
,h
Ilis text as here announced was, "Is IT is in lispensahle, the liinh being perhaps in
8UCB A r&eT TQAT IBAVK CHOSE!*." Isaiah, evitably sacrificed, and the life of tho patient
5Sth obnp. 5th »e»«. Th. fax her. .poken P1*"'1
as, according to these statement-, the whole
of by the prophet w»s one where tbe people)
hid goue through all th- formalities of fast* pres-ure on the joint, tbe firft and chief ob
ing and humiliation, but bad not tbe soul of J*ot tuuH be to remove this pressure, and to
the act in them-tbat it was hvpooritical-
point originally decayoa has extendod and
0pr: a!
rel'\*'
and deepened, and now an operation
wi(iChief reflull8
for
n wlth
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