Club-foot : its causes, pathology, and treatment. Being the essay to which the Jacksonian Prize for 1864, given by the Royal College of Surgeons, was awarded / by William Adams.

  • Adams, William.
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1866
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Credit: Club-foot : its causes, pathology, and treatment. Being the essay to which the Jacksonian Prize for 1864, given by the Royal College of Surgeons, was awarded / by William Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The Jacksonian prize offered by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1864 for an Essay on Club-foot, its causes, nature and treatment, was awarded to the present Essay in April, 1865. In the hope that this work may also prove accep- table to the profession, it is now reproduced in its present form without any substantial alterations; but with such modi- fications as are rendered necessary by the altered circumstances under which a competitive essay is written, and afterwards published. In writing a competitive essay, the necessity of concealing the Authorship must be a primary consideration; whilst at the same time it is impossible to avoid reference to any original observa- tions and researches which the Author may have made. In the essay when subsequently published as a monograph, the right to claim any such observations and researches must be ac- knowledged; and in the exercise of this privilege, I have limited myself to making such alterations only as appeared to be necessary. For the purpose of further illustrating the subject, I have added in an Appendix a scries of cases affording well marked examples of the several varieties of club-foot and contractions described in the Essay. Since my connexion with the Royal Orthopcedic Hospital in the year 1851, not only has the more practical part of