Observations on the causes of distortions of the legs of children, and the consequences of the pernicious means generally used with the intention of curing them : with cases to prove the efficacy of a method of cure / invented and practised only by T. Sheldrake.
- Sheldrake, Timothy.
- Date:
- 1794
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the causes of distortions of the legs of children, and the consequences of the pernicious means generally used with the intention of curing them : with cases to prove the efficacy of a method of cure / invented and practised only by T. Sheldrake. 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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![pearancc^of authenticity to their falfe pre- tences. That an ignorant flioemaker, who attempted to relcue himfelf from beggary, by the pra61ice of quackery, lliould do this, is by no means furprizing ; but that one, having a legal claim to rank as a profeflional man, Ihould pretend to have learnt the fecret of performing fuch cures from this flioemaker, and mention this gentleman's cafe as a proof of his preceptor's wonderful fuccefs, is, indeed, an aflonifhing, and (I hope, for the credit of the medical profef- fion) a fmgular inftance of moral turpitude. ON INCURVATION OF THE BONES OF THE LEG. Of thofe diftortions which take place after the birth, the earlieft in its appear- ance, the moft d!fagreeable in its confe- c^uence, and the moll difficult to cure, is curvature in the bones of the leg: it never appears until the child begins to walk, of- ten about that period, and, not unfrequcnt- ]y, at different periods after that time, it is faid, in general terms, to be occafioned by placing the child on his legs too foon ; this](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2228199x_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
