A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to shew under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise; with thirty-one cases that have been ... 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, Jr.
Date:
1798
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Credit: A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to shew under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise; with thirty-one cases that have been ... 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.

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    ays depends ; it is a point upon which fo much depends, and upon which fo little ftrefs has been laid, even by thofe who have been mod: interefted in the welfare of thofe patients 1 have under my care, that I truft it will not be thought irrelevant if I at- tempt to difcufs it here. Confidering the mufcles only, two ope- rations are necedary to efFedt a cure; one, bv reducing the foot into its natural form,' to remove the contra&ion that has taken place. In this date, the foot appears well foimed, but is ufelefs, as to all purpofes of loco-motion; it will remain in this pofition fo long as it is held or bound, but upon re- moving the hand or bandage, immediately falls back into its former pofition. The fecond operation is, therefore, neceffary to keep it in the natural pofition, till the per- fect ufe of all the parts is obtained, and then a iclapie is no more to be feared. In the companfon I have made between the diftorted and the nat ural foot of a patient, it has been feen, that the peroneus longus on the diftoi ted foot, was two inches and a half