London Medical Gazette Volume 15 (Paperback)

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. 1835 Excerpt: ...give way to them." This opinion was also entertained by Boyer, as evidenced in the following passage of Dr. Farrall's translation of his work "Des Maladies des Os." "Club-foot is caused by an inequality in the respective force of the adductors and abductors of the foot, which inequality may depend on the position in which the foetus is placed in the womb, or 011 the manner in which it has been treated after birth." It seems also to have been adopted, though but to a limited extent, by Dr. Colles, who, in his very excellent paper on this subject, thus expresses himself: "For I apprehend there are not only different degrees, but different kinds of this deformity, and am convinced that the bones themselves, by being long held or exercised in an unnatural position, will become distorted." Mangolin also, in his able article on " Orthopedie," "Diet, de Medecinede Paris, 1817," alluding to the opinions of Scarpa, Bovcr, Delncch, Sec. thus expresses himself--"Wcconceive, vcrydifl'crently fromthose celebrated practitioners, that in some subjects the deformity owes its origin to an irregular formation of the bones of the tarsus, or even of a single articular face; at other times it may be the result of a defect in the equilibrium of the forces of the different muscles which move the foot, or a deficiency in length in part of them; hut in others it can arise from the preternatural mode of insertion of one or more of the principal tendons which are attached to that limb. Once that the first element of distortion has begun to produce its effect, the deformity must increase each day, because several, of the other causes unite to deform the foot. After birth, when the infants begin to walk, the weight of the body ...