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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    my wife and myself, sincere thanks for tlie great benefits my son F. E. has received in the Westminster Hospital. All pre- vious attempts to effect a cure having failed, we are delighted to know that he is now able to run about with ease and comfort.' [Since the delivery of this lecture, I have treated a case of talipes equinus (nineteen years' duration) by an accurate excision of the keystone of the tarsal arch.] LECTUKE III. ON TALIPES EQUINUS AND CALCANEUS: WITH CASES ILLUSTRATING NEW METHODS OF TREATMENT. Delivered May 2i, 1878. QBritisli Medical Journal,'' February 15, 1879.) Gentlemen,—Before entering upon our special subject this day, I wish to draw your attention to two cases in Mark Ward, of talipes varus, which have been most successfully operated on in the way described by myself in the ' British Medical Journal' of December 15, 1877: cases'in which common- sense rules of cleanliness have been carried out, but without any dressings, or any special antiseptic precautions. Both were young lads; both had been most patient submitters to the usual orthopoedic practice ; both had gradually got worse; and both were unable to gain an honest livelihood by reason of the deformity. The right foot was affected in each case. Their recovery also was equally uniform. Each boy left his bed five weeks after the operation ; and both can now walk well without apparent deformity. You must remember that, in these cases of confirmed talipes, the bones are structurally altered; and this fact (amongst others) directed my attention to bone-operation, in contradistinction to tendon or fascia-cutting. Take the case of a deformed knee-joint with angularity of ten years' duration, no amount of division of hamstrings will restore the limb to a straight line; but an accurate removal of a wedge-shaped piece