The operative treatment of genu valgum / by Alexander Ogston.

  • Ogston, Alexander, 1844-1929.
Date:
[1877]
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Credit: The operative treatment of genu valgum / by Alexander Ogston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE OPERATIVE TREATME^^T OF GENU VALGUM. BY ALEXANDER OGSTON, M.D., SURGEON TO THE ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY. {Reprinted from the Edinburgh Medical Journal for March 1877.) The following history illustrates, in a bad case of knock-knee, a means of treatment hitherto untried, but which yielded on both legs results so perfect as to warrant its being recommended in similar cases. The patient, D. G., a male, aged 18, was admited into the Aber¬ deen Infirmary on the 19th of April 1876. His occupation was that of a moulder in an iron foundry, and his account of the com¬ mencement and progress of his disease was as follows When six years of age, he had an attack of typhus fever, followed by general weakness, most marked in his lower limbs. After a time he noticed a deformity in his knees, which became bent inwards, and the deformity has been steadily increasing up to the present time. Until his tenth year he remained pale, delicate, and weak, but with no definite ailment save in his knees, and without any noticeable deformity elsewhere. Since his tenth year his general health has been very good. Apjpearance on Admission.—His general appearance is that of a robust, strongly muscular, and well-nourished lad, but whose growth has been stunted. The deformity of his lower extremities immediately attracts attention. When upright, or lying on his back with the limbs straight, the knees fall inwards so as to knock against each other, and one knee has to be placed behind or before the other, to enable him to stand. If his feet are placed together.