On the cure of clubfoot without cutting tendons : and on certain new methods of treating other deformities / by Richard Barwell.

Date:
1863
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Credit: On the cure of clubfoot without cutting tendons : and on certain new methods of treating other deformities / by Richard Barwell. 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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    CHAPTER III. PAGE Impropeiett of Tendon-cutting, and its Evil Eesults '26 Paralysed muscles left without aid—StiU active ones cut—RutMess practice in tendon-cuttiag— Eoot powerless can be squeezed into shape— Power never retiu-ns, except in tendo Achilles —There deformity retui-us too—Table of ten- dons permanently destroyed—^Foot quite as easily restored without division of the tendon. CHAPTER IV. The Mechanical and After Treatment 45 Mechanical treatment still after Scarpa—He took his shoe from Tiphaisne and Venel—All ortho- ptedic shoes act entirely on ankle-joint—Treat- ing foot as a whole—Keep foot on rigid sole and motionless, favouring bad effects of paralysis. CHAPTER V. My New Method of Treatment 55 My method opposed to both tenotomists and machinists—Princiijles of my practice—Mode of carrying out generally—Powers of india- rubber springs.