Growing children and awkward walking / by Thomas William Nunn.
- Nunn, T. W. (Thomas William), 1825-1909
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Growing children and awkward walking / by Thomas William Nunn. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![servation that this is never seen except as a consequence of febrile diseases or of straining the spine. Cutting is said to be rarely permanent. Sometimes the trouble with certain horses comes on in the spring and autumn only, and then but for a few weeks.] The knee joint, as is often too obvious, is liable to some deflection from the line best suited to transmit the weight of the body to the foot. The state called knock-knee requires particular notice. A minor degree of this deformity may arise from the hip joint, the obliquity of the thigh tending to push the lower end of the thigh bone inwardly, and thus to put not only the ligaments of the knee, but the muscles, at a disadvantage. But in the more marked degree the bones of the knee are at fault, both the lower end of the thigh bone and upper end of the larger of the leg bones (the smaller bone of the leg does not share in the joint) participating. Sir George M. Humphry brought the subject of knock-knee, and some other deformities of the knee joint, before the profession in 1889, and he showed how uneven growth of the bones at the bone-produc- tive layer of cartilage (see page 11) gave rise to the departure from natural form; this special](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28117554_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
