Surgical lectures, delivered in the theatre of the Westminster Hospital / by Richard Davy.

  • Davy, R. L.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Surgical lectures, delivered in the theatre of the Westminster Hospital / by Richard Davy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUEGICAL LECTUEES. SUBJECT I. CLUB FOOT. LECTUEE I. EXCISION OF THE CUBOID BONE FOR EXAGGERATED CASES OF TALIPES EQUINO-VARUS. Delweeed at the Westminster Hospital, March 28, 1876. QBritisli Medical Journal,'' Ajn-il 29,1876.) GrE]N^TLEMEN,—I bring before your notice to- day the third case in which the cuboid bone has been removed for exaggerated and confirmed talipes equino-varus. The considerations that have led me to perform this operation are as follows:—1. The intractability and relapsing character of the deformity, notwith- standing division of tendons and plantar fasciae; 2. The great trouble and expense to poor patients in procuring talipes instruments, and the necessity for prolonged surgical treatment; 3. The anatomical facts connected with the cuboid bone; and 4. The pathological evidence obtained from a case in which Mr. Barnard Holt had removed the cuboid bone for caries, un- attended with club-foot. The two first-named considerations are matters of daily experience, and need not now occupy our time; but the anatomical facts are important, and worthy of statement. The cuboid acts as a direct supporting block of bone to the two external toes (third and fourth metatarsal bones), having y ^