Further studies upon the arch of the foot in infancy and childhood / by John Dane.

  • Dane, John.
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Further studies upon the arch of the foot in infancy and childhood / by John Dane. 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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    upright, and tightened at their overlapping edges by a lace line running through a series of eyelets. As these leathers only half encircle the circumference of the leg they can cause no injury from constriction. The necessary changes to adapt the splint for knock-knee will be so evident that a description of them is omitted. It cannot be claimed that this splint is original. In the Revue d' Orthopedie for 1892, vol. iii., in an article entitled “ Du Traitment orthopedique des Cagneux'\ Dr. Henri Martin of Lusanne speaks of a similar splint, hut without the connection with the shoe, which he says was used by Venel and his pupils in treating knock-knee nearly one hundred years ago. He appears, however, never to have so modified it as to use it for bow-legs, and owing to its lack of connection with the shoe it was hard to keep in place. He says, himself, that it is easily dis- placed by the movements of the child, and speaks of its being, therefore, necessary to keep it under constant ob- servation, and even to reapply it several times a day. The new splint is not exactly like this in any single part; each detail has been somewhat altered and additions made. I hope the resultant is a simple, easily adjusted, and powerful splint that may again find favor with ortho- pedic surgeons. 29 Marlborough Street, Boston.