Memoir on the radical cure of club-foot / by H. Scoutetten ; translated from the French by F. Campbell Stewart.

  • Scoutetten, H. (Henri), 1799-1871.
Date:
1840
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    environs of FVancfort, and afterwaids by Michaelis,' and Sartorius in 1812'^' They were isolated cases, and of no value, inasmuch as they were destitute of a scientific tfieory. The operation as reported by Delpech, was in general received unfavourably. The editor of a journal of the day, in speaking of it, is astonished that the author had seriously proposed such an operation. Other editors were of opinion that it should never be performed, but they discussed the point scientifically and in a becoming manner. Many years had elapsed without any attention being paid to the subject by operative surgeons, when suddenly there appeared in Rust's journal,^ a memoir of Dr. Louis Stromeyer, surgeon to the King of Hanover, indicating a new process of operating the section of the tendo Achillis, in the treatment of club-foot. In this memoir, two remarkable cases, cured by means of his plan of treatment, are related. The first of the two operations was performed on the 2Sth of February, 1831, and the second, on the 12th of June, 1832. On the 29th April, 1834. M. Stromeyer wrote a letter to the editor of the Archives generalcs* communicating the result of four new cases in which he had operated, three of which had been attended with success. These happy results obtained by the Hanoverian surgeon, awakened promptly the attention of the Parisian orthopedists: MM. Bouvier and DuvaP repeatedly divided the tendon, and their success soon surpassed that of Dr. Stromeyer. These, with the remarkable cures that have been obtained by myself, and which I shall presently detail, include, I think, all that has been achieved, up to the present time, in this important department of orthopedic surgery. The section of the tendo Achillis is henceforth an established fact; it is an achievement of science destined to give new eclat to surgery, by the benefits that those unfortunate individuals aflfected with deformities of the feet will experience from it. If we look back to the facts contained in the annals of medicine, we are astonished to find that this important discovery was not made at an earlier period,—a discovery reserved to adorn the nine- teenth century. The fact had been established by Molinelli^ in the * Michaelis, in Hufeland's Journal; anno 1811, 6tes Heft.—This surgeon after all did not make a complete division of the tendon, but only incised it partially. * Sartorius, in Siebold's Journal; 3ter Band. ' Rust's Magasin fur die gesammte Heilkunde.-39e vol., and Gazette M6di- cale, Sept. 1S33, p. 673. This same memoir, translated entire by Dr. Rich- elot, will be found in the Archives generales de Medecine, 1834, tome ler. * Arch. G6n. t. ii. p. 194,-1834. » Bouvier.—Memoire lu a I'Academie des Sciences, s6ance du 12 Sept. 1836, et Academic de Medecine, 26 Novem. 1836.—Voy. Bulletin de I'Acade- mie de Medecine, 15 Decern. 1836. Duval.—Academic royale de Mede- cine, 17 Janvier. 1837, Bulletin, Janvier, 1&37, p. 304. •Comment. Academ. Scientiar: Bononiens. t. ii, par. 1. page 189—196, and memoirs to serve as a history of the 18th century, by Paul Avignon,