A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to show under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise : with thirty-one cases that have been successfully treated by the method for which the author has obtained the King's patent, and the specification of the patent for that purpose, as well as for curing distortions of the spine, and every other deformity that can be remedied by mechanical applications / by T. Sheldrake.

  • Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1783-1806.
Date:
1798
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to show under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise : with thirty-one cases that have been successfully treated by the method for which the author has obtained the King's patent, and the specification of the patent for that purpose, as well as for curing distortions of the spine, and every other deformity that can be remedied by mechanical applications / by T. Sheldrake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    POSTSCRIPT. Having employed near twenty years on the fubjedt of this EfTay, and brought it to the ftate in which I now lay it before the Public, I may be excufed for feeling a degree of honorable anxiety, that no mif- take or mifconducl of any one who, being totally ignorant of the fubjedl, lhall venture to pradtife the method of cure now recom- mended to notice, may be attributed to myfelf. It is neceffary to mention- this, becaufe there exifts a perfon, fo infignifi- cant, as to be, perfonally, beneath all no- tice, and fo atrocious as to impofe, when an opportunity offers, himfelf upon the incautious, as the author of my works, and even deny my exiflence, when by fo doing he can hope to fubftitute himfelf in my head ;■