Orthopraxy : the mechanical treatment of deformities, debilities and deficiencies of the human frame : a manual / by Henry Heather Bigg.

Date:: 1869

Credit: Orthopraxy : the mechanical treatment of deformities, debilities and deficiencies of the human frame : a manual / by Henry Heather Bigg. 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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$ANDRr's BOOK ON ORTHOP^DY. carriagej recommending certain exercises, as for example, carrying a stick with wide-spread arms, to extend the clavicles; bearing a weight upon the head, when it tends improperly to one side; or upon the shoulder, if one is higher than the other. The work, indeed, in many points is one, as Mr. Turveytop would have said, of deportment. It includes, indeed, much that would offend the dignity of the orthopaedic practitioner of the present day. The first book contains a general account of the exterior of the body. The second discusses the means of prevent- ing and correcting in infancy deformities of the carriage. Writing of high-heeled shoes, which have once more become the fashion among us, Andry points out that they cause young persons to stoop, and ought not to be worn by girls until they are fifteen years old. The third book deals with deformities of the arms, the hands, the legs, and the feet. He describes and details the characteristics of well-made arms, hands, and fingers; and he touches specially upon the following deformities of the hand and fingers : (1) Rough, hairy, and crooked hands(2) Hooked hands (3) Swelling of the vessels of the hand; (4) Warty hands; (5) Callosities of the hands; (6) Trembling of the hands; (7) Tetter of the hands and arms; (8) Sweaty hands; (9) Tailor's thumb; (10) Warped fingers; (11) Supernumerary fingers; (12) Chilblains of the fingers; (13) Shoulder-of-mutton hand; (14) Itch of the hands and arms; (15) Deformities of the nails: (a) nails ragged at the root; [b] hooked nails; (c) too short nails; [d) deciduous and ass-backed nails; (e) knotty nails; (/) spotted nails; {y) split-nails; (A) livid nails; (16) Tlie left-handed. The fourth book is devoted to deformities of the head, and is followed by a chapter on the voice. The appendix.$