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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![G PATHOLOGY OF DEFORMITIES. tain for the subject great attention amongst medical men. Moreover, it is not a dry subject, interesting merely as a branch of practice. The varieties, the etiology, and the pathology of deformities involve questions of the utmost interest to physiologists. The various abnormal forms of the human frame, and the manner of their production, are calculated to illustrate some obscure points in the nervous system. Here are four casts of talipes varus, each pre- cisely [closely] resembling its neighbour in form, yet each has been preceded by different etiological and pathological events. Here is a similar series of the deformity, named talipes equinus, and there a similar collection of talipes valgus. Here is a model of a congenital deformity of numerous articulations, and there is one of a series of de- formities occurring after birth, so entirely resembling the congenital case, that at first sight they appear to be iden- tical The study of the causes of changes that m form are so similar, their pathological analogies, and the pro- bability and degree of their restoration, affords a new field of inquiry. Orthopaedy is something better than a mere mechanical art; whilst employing its therapeutic resources, many of which are mechanical, the mind is also interested in problems that have hitherto been incompletely solved. In these lectures, however, I shall not tread the paths of theory and speculation, but keep strictly within the limits of practical utility. The course is designed for students, and from the small number of lectures of which it will consist, must be con- fined principally to elementary and practical matters, be- coming, in fact, a series of demonstrations of the subjects rather than formal lectures. As to the manner in which the subjects can be subdivided for the best comprehen- on of my views on the pathology and treatment of distor- tions, a topographical arrangement [in the usua1 mnnn,r of authors] would appear at first view to be the m simple. Thus I might commence with deformities oi the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21289141_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
