The human foot : its form and structure, functions and clothing / by Thomas S. Ellis.

Date:
1889
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The human foot : its form and structure, functions and clothing / by Thomas S. Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    EXPLANATION OF PLATES Plate 1, Fig. 1 is a view of the upper surface of the skeleton of the right foot. The bones are named as follows :—The Astragalus (Talus or Huckle bone) connects the foot with the leg, the large bone of which (Tibia) rests upon it where the name is written, clipping it on the inner side by a projection downwards as shown, in section, by fig. 16, pi. 5, where the Fibula,* or smaller bone of the leg, is seen to clip it on the outer side. The Astragalus rides on the Os Calcis (Calcaneum or Heel bone) beyond which it projects, hanging over on the inner side in front of the letter a, while a large portion of the latter bone is, on the outer side, unconcealed by it. The two bones named come up to a fairly even line across the foot. A division at the joints is shown by fig. 9, pi. 3. The smooth rounded head, elongated in one direction into an oval form, fits into a corresponding hollow in the Scaphoid bone, so called from its boat-like form.f On the outer side is the Cuboid, having the form of a cube, though somewhat irregular. Extending from it to the inner margin of the foot are three wedge-like or Cuneiform bones. The seven bones of the foot, named, form the Tarsus, corresponding to the wrist or Carpus in the hand. The body of the foot is completed in front by five long Metatarsal bones, forming the Meta-tarsus, and fixed to the tarsvs by an irregular line receding backwards and outwards. They are numbered 1 to .5, the fifth having a point projecting backwards by the side of the enhoid bone. This point is concealed in the living foot, but a rounded projection outwards [h] can always be felt. * The bones of the leg, Tibia and Fibula, are so called from their supposed resemblance, the former to a pipe or flute, the latter to a clasp. t For the same reason, sometimes called navicular, a name better avoided because, m the horse, applied to an altogether different bone.