On the nature and treatment of the deformities of the human frame : being a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in 1843 ; with numerous notes and additions to the present time / by W.J. Little.

  • William Little
Date:
1853
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    wry-neck;* and of Delpech [1823-29], who perceived the cause of previous failure, but who omitted to act on the principles he had adopted. The labours of Delpech, though calculated to arouse the attention of surgeons, remained apparently unheeded until they evoked the talents and ar- dour of Stromeyer [1830], to whom is due the discovery of subcutaneous tenotomy,f its application to club-foot, and its establishment as & principle in operative medicine. An immense and rapid advance in the treatment of de- formities has taken place since Stromeyer demonstrated the absolute safety of this mode of operation. The at- tempt to cure deformities is no longer disdained by medical men of eminence. Many of my own students have diffused the methods here practised in the majority of the British colonies and in some foreign states. Every month has in- creased the usefulness of the practical orthopsedist. Teno- tomy has now been successfully applied to every part of the frame [from which has resulted its indiscriminate use by some too sanguine practitioners]. Without exaggeration it may be stated, that at the present moment many of the most unsightly deformities can be cured with less incon- venience than any other class of afflictions at all compa- rable with deformities in the bodily and mental suffering they occasion. This improvement is attributable to in- creased experience in the mechanical treatment. Notwith- standing the prevalence of belief in the beneficial effects of proper treatment in relieving deformities, few practi- tioners are aware that such distortions as these {shewing them) can be so nearly approximated to symmetrical con- formation as the models placed upon the table. The success which may now attend the treatment of deformities, and the extreme frequency of such malformations, should ob- fasl \t' C°0Per °Perated f°r COntracted fin*?er from diseased plantar denude a!d Z^TT SUbCUt~ ^tomy, and attempted to enude and remove the d.seased parts by crucial incision and dissection. T -f rom Ttvwv, tendon, and rt/xvetv, to cut.