Dr. Underwood's treatise on the diseases of children : with directions for the management of infants.

Date:
1846
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    wise, to render this remedy a kind of amusement. I shall only add on this head, that children who are inclined to squint ought not to be exposed to a very strong light, nor learn to read very young. A great improvement in the removal of this distortion has been effected in modern surgery, by division of the muscles of the eye. “ The success has been in cases of internal or converging squinting, complete, although some few have given much trouble. There is scarcely a case which is not curable. The operation may be done with the greatest safety, and with- out fear of any evil consequences, in less than half a minute, and every surgeon possessing a reasonable share of informa- tion on these points will be able, after having once seen it done to do it as well, to say the least of it, as I can. 340 cases were operated on for internal or converging squinting, and ] 6 for external or diverging squinting.”—Report of the opera- tions for the cure of squinting, performed at the Royal West- minster Ophthalmic Hospital, Nov. 1840. By Charles W. G. Guthrie, jun. VARl AND VALGI. These are distortions of the feet, and differ only with respect to the side to which the foot is turned; in the former, the soles of the feet being turned inwards, and in the latter out- wards; the curative intention is therefore alike in both. The complaint is sometimes very trifling, and seems to have been owing only to some cramped position in utero, and in that case, disappears before the end of the month. In other instances, there is evidently a contraction if not accur- tation, of the tendons, which calls for considerable attention. The remedy, however, is obvious enough, and fi'equently con- sists only in the proper application of a roller and pasteboard splints, so as gradually to bring the foot into its natural posi- tion; and in proportion as it inclines thereto, increasing the force, and tightening the roller every two or three days. There is also another very common distortion of the feet, m which they are turned upwards towards the instep ; but the