A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to show under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise : with thirty-one cases that have been successfully treated by the method for which the author has obtained the King's patent, and the specification of the patent for that purpose, as well as for curing distortions of the spine, and every other deformity that can be remedied by mechanical applications / by T. Sheldrake.
- Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1783-1806.
- Date:
- 1798
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to show under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise : with thirty-one cases that have been successfully treated by the method for which the author has obtained the King's patent, and the specification of the patent for that purpose, as well as for curing distortions of the spine, and every other deformity that can be remedied by mechanical applications / by T. Sheldrake. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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