McComber's tracks for 1883. : Comprising descriptions of McComber's institution for the radical cure of foot distortions by conservative surgery, and also of McComber's fashionable army and navy shoes for ladies and gentlemen.

  • McComber, Joel
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1882
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Credit: McComber's tracks for 1883. : Comprising descriptions of McComber's institution for the radical cure of foot distortions by conservative surgery, and also of McComber's fashionable army and navy shoes for ladies and gentlemen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their body; how distortion may he relieyed and corns cured; how symmetry may super sede deformity and ugliness; liou^ pleasureh exercise^ dignity of motion, and grace o: attitude may he secured, in my yarious puhlii cations for which I ask a careful perusal. CLUB-FOOT AND KINDRED BE EORMTIES. I desire to call wider attention to the fac: known to many citizens for ten years past: that, by special methods not employed b;; others, I successfully treat d.eformities of thu feet and ankles, whether accidental or con i genital. These special methods do not inyolys the seyering of tendons or the application o iron braces. I employ a system of surgeiy deyised by myself, which neither cuts, no., punctures, nor sears, nor shackles ; but, on the contrary, strengthens and saves. It itii conseiwatiye surgery in its truest sense. It:-: mission is to painlessly restore to symmetiy the deformed member. The parent of a club-footed child will re joice to know that relief from deformitv can be etfected without the use of the knife without occasioning pain or suffering, with out straightening-devices or iron clamps. In talipes (club-foot), as in all varieties of foot distortion, the excising of tendons with the intent of straightening displaced hiembers i. the common and crying evil. It is the opprobrium of the surgeon’s art. Cutting tendons never made a perfect foot out of a