On the surgical treatment of deformities / by William Adams.

  • Adams, William
Date:
1893
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    ciples of surgery which are applicable to the various classes of cases into which contractions with deformity may be grouped, and also to advert to the new depar- tures from the established principles of treatment which some surgeons have endeavoured to make. These general principles of Surgery I have arranged in seven classes, and propose to make some observa- tions on each class, viz. :— The First Principle.—Mechanical treatment. The Second Principle— Subcutaneous tenotomy and gradual mechanical extension. The Third Principle.—Subcutaneous osteotomy. The Fourth Principle.—Forcible straightening' of bent limbs and contracted joints—The Bone Setter's treatment. The Fifth Principle.—Extension. The Sixth Principle.—Recumbency. The Seventh Principle.—Including massage often combined with passive movements and galvanism. No. I.—Mechanical Treatment. The oldest principle adopted before the treatment of contractions and deformities was brought within the domain of surgery by the introduction of sub- cutaneous tenotomy in the year 1831, by Stromeyer of Hanover. The mechanical treatment in these early days was necessarily of the simplest kind adopted by a class of so-called mechanicians, and in accordance with the imperfect knowledge of the day. I need only mention the case of the celebrated Lord Byron who was born with a club-foot, and whose sufferings under the mechanical treatment adopted, are well described in Moore's life of the poet, who died in the year 1824,
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