A letter, containing some observations on fractures of the lower limbs : to which is added, an account of a contrivance to administer cleanliness and comfort to the bed-ridden, or persons confined to bed by age, accident, sickness, or any other infirmity / by Sir James Earle.

Date:
1807
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Credit: A letter, containing some observations on fractures of the lower limbs : to which is added, an account of a contrivance to administer cleanliness and comfort to the bed-ridden, or persons confined to bed by age, accident, sickness, or any other infirmity / by Sir James Earle. 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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    did. His father concurred with himself in saying that he had been from his infancy splay- footed; that is, his feet turned out, and he had always been accustomed to walk with his inner ankles in front, to such a degree that he was refused to be admitted as a soldier. This was the cause of the difficulty of retaining his feet in a proper situation, and preventing them from falling outward on the external ankles, as you must have noticed in the account of the case, though the reason of it was not at that time conjectured. By the situation the feet were placed in and confined, during the whole time that the ossification of the thigh-bones was going on, the feet are now in a proper direction, and he walks, like other people, straight forward. The poor fellow himself is very proud of the advantageous alteration in his person, and thinks he might now make no bad figure in the ranks. It is certainly an extraordinary occur- ence, that, instead of being injured, the inar\