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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    cavity, or acetabulum ; in the displacement under considera- tion, it is the acetabulum which changes its position, while the round articular head remains in its natural place. § 13. In making this assertion, I do not pretend to say, that the astragalus, in this congenital deformity, is never, in the slightest manner, inclined to the internal malleolus; for I allow that it is sometimes a very little, or even considera- bly so, in adults, who have had this malconfirmation from birth. All that I mean to assert is, that, in infants who have not begun to walk, this obliquity of the body of the astragalus is very trifling when compared with that of the other bones of the tarsus, in the congenital club foot turn- ed inwards. Camper* is of a different opinion. But it is probable, that this celebrated anatomist had only examin- ed the congenital club foot turned inwards of an adult subject, who had made use of his feet for several years. In this case I have also observed, that, from the long pres- sure upon the sole of the foot, and the walking upon its outer side, and the oblique direction acquired by the ten- dons of the muscles inserted into the tarsus and toes, in course of time the astragalus, at its union with the tibia, and with the external malleolus, is likewise inclin- ed very much inwards, and becomes so much deformed and so small, that it seems as if it had been compressed and wasted. The same conclusion may be drawn from the ob» Sulle Scafpe, e dei mali da esse cagionati—Dissert.