A memoir on the congenital club feet of children and on the mode of correcting that deformity / by Antonio Scarpa. Translated from the Italian by J. H. Wishart.

  • Scarpa, Antonio, 1752-1832.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A memoir on the congenital club feet of children and on the mode of correcting that deformity / by Antonio Scarpa. Translated from the Italian by J. H. Wishart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    outer surface, where the abductor muscle of the little toe is attached; and, lastly, in this deformity of the feet, that por- tion of the body of the os calcis, on which the neck of the astragalus usually rests, does not extend forwards. § 10. The three cuneiform bones, * the metatarsal, and those of the toes, necessarily follow the diseased turning round their axis of the naviculare, cuboides, and os calcis ; and, therefore, it follows, of mechanical necessity, that the toes of the congenital club foot do not rest horizontally on the ground, but in a line nearly vertical to it. And like- wise, the posterior head of the metatarsal bone, supporting the little toe, which, in the well-formed foot, projects out- wards in a parallel direction to the ground with the outer edge of the foot is, in the deformed state, found concealed under the sole of the foot. § 11. On the sole of the club foot, turned inwards from birth, as well as on its upper part and sides, we observe, equally distinct, the morbid turning inwards of the body of the os calcis, f and the unnatural curvature of its posterior tuberosity J towards the inner margin of the foot, and up- wards in the hollow of the sole. The internal protuber- ance of the os naviculare § is turned obliquely upwards to- wards the internal malleolus, || and is almost in contact with * Plate L Fig. I. 13, 14, 15. || Plate I. Fig. II. 2. f Plate I. Fig. II. 5.