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The pathologists divide scoliosis into a myopathic variety, in which the trouble is a physiologic antagonism of the muscles; or osteopathic, ordinarily associated with rachitis, which latter variety is generally accountable for congenital scoliosis.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)