Club-foot : its causes, pathology, and treatment. Being the essay to which the Jacksonian Prize for 1864, given by the Royal College of Surgeons, was awarded / by William Adams.

  • Adams, William
Date:
1866
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Credit: Club-foot : its causes, pathology, and treatment. Being the essay to which the Jacksonian Prize for 1864, given by the Royal College of Surgeons, was awarded / by William Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    extent than the right. No post-mortem examination was allowed, and therefore the precise nature of this complicated malformation could not be ascertained. Case XVL Case of congenital hypertroiohy of the right leg, lohich -at birth icas larger than the opjjosite limb, and continued to grow at an increased rate; accompanied with malformation of the foot. On the 24th December, 1863, R. I. Lloyd, aged twelve months, was brought to me at the Orthopaedic Hospital,- in consequence of congenital hypertrophy of the right leg, which in all its proportions in length and breadth, from the foot to the top of the thigh, was at birth larger than the opposite limb, and was said by the parents to have been at the time of birth two inches longer than the left. When he came to the hospital, this leg was still continuing to grow at a rate dis- 3?IG. 99. Conijcnital liyportropliy of right lej;, wliirli nt birth wiis liirpn'r (hiin tlie opjiosilc linil), and continued to fcrow iit im iiicreiiscd riitc; aceoiiiiianicd with niiiirorniatiuu of the loot. Drawn Irom n ])hoto- grapU taken wlien the cliild was nearly tlirec years of age proportionate to that of the opposite limb, and when this child died at the age of three years from hooping-cough, the right