The operative treatment of resistant club-foot / by E.H. Bradford.

  • Edward Hickling Bradford
Date:
1892
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Credit: The operative treatment of resistant club-foot / by E.H. Bradford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    advocated. While it is readily admitted that the successes of Drs. Taylor, eJudson, and Shaffer have shown conclusively that club-foot can be in many instances satisfactorily corrected by means of me- chanical treatment alone, in advocating operative measures for the persistent cases the claim is made that in the severest and most resistant cases cure can be effected more speedily, certainly, and Fig. 4. * The foot one year after forcible correction. f safely by proper radical operative measures than by simpler means As Dr. Morton has well said, some cases of congenital club-foot are corrected without great difficulty and permanently cured, while in others the deformity is resistant, and there is a tendency to re- lapse; and in treating of club-foot, in some instances time is of importance, and also the inefficiency or poverty of the parents has to be considered. Many resistant cases could be treated by mechan-