A memoir on the congenital club feet of children : and on the mode of correcting that deformity / by Antonio Scarpa ; translated from the Italian by J.H. Wishart ; with five original engravings by Anderloni.

  • Scarpa, Antonio
Date:
1808
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Credit: A memoir on the congenital club feet of children : and on the mode of correcting that deformity / by Antonio Scarpa ; translated from the Italian by J.H. Wishart ; with five original engravings by Anderloni. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the first with some modifications, and with the addition of a third spring, the action of which is intended to sup- ply the place of the peronei muscles, and to bring the body, and posterior tuberosity of the os calcis, more out- wards than was procured by the first apparatus, and at the same time to retain the tibia and fibula perpendicular to the astragalus. § 29. The following are the different parts composing this second elastic apparatus. A slipper, the posterior quarter of which * is formed by a nearly parabolical spring of fine flexible elastic steel plate, incloses the heel. The inner side of this spring is a little shorter than the outer ; the former extending to the internal malleolus, the latter to the external. The end of each of these sides is bent slight- ly outwards, that the skin of the foot may not be injured. The height of the parabolical spring is such as to allow, du- ring the cure, the posterior tuberosity of the heel to descend, and sink deep into it. To the bottom of the parabolical spring is sewed a sole of leather, which extends along the whole sole of the foot, f and reaches above the edge of it all round, and is kept in its place by one or more ribbons, tied on the dorsum of the foot. $ The parabolical spring is kept in its place around the heel by a padded strap, § which passes round the neck of the foot. The parabolical spring * Plate III. IV. Fig. I. a. a. J Plate HI.C + Plate III. b. b. § Plate III. d.
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