A Practical Essay on Distortion of the Legs and Feet of Children, &c With an Appendix Containing Sixty-Two Cases That Have Been Successfully Treated ... the Ages of One Week and Twenty-Five Years - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1816 Excerpt: ... Length of the foot Circumference at the toes Ditto round the heel and instep Smallest part of the leg Largest-ditto The two legs are of equal length. From this cure many inferences may he drawn to ilr 3ustrate the nature of the disease, and the alterations that take place during the progress of the cure. Here, it will only be necessary to notice one circumstance., viz. the difference of si-ze in the two legs, i« consequence of the one being perfectly cured, and the other-havmg unexpectedly relapsed. When the patient came first under my.care the deformity of both feet was nearly equal, but the right foot was the most rigidly fixed in its deformed state, and therefore it was natural to presume that it would require more time to effect a perfect cure; and this seems actually to have-happened: for though they were both, to.appearance, quite well when lie was removed from my care, and continued so for several months afterwards, yet there can be Ro doubt that a latent weakness in the ligaments of the right foot rendered that less able to support the natural action, and occasioned it to relapse into a state of deformity, towards which the left toot never shewed the least tendency to return. This debility, and the want of power, in the deformed foot, to act equally with the other foot, evidently accounts for the difference in the si/e of the two legs; this difference will, in all probability, disappear when the natural action of the right leg is regained to its full extent. The shortness of the right foot is to be attributed to two causes: viz. 1st, a derangement in the natural connection of the bones of the foot; and, 2dlv# (deficiency of growth in those bones, in consequence of the want of natural action. There is every reason to suppose, that so much of the...

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