A memoir on the congenital club feet of children : and on the mode of correcting that deformity / by Antonio Scarpa ; translated from the Italian by J.H. Wishart ; with five original engravings by Anderloni.

  • Scarpa, Antonio.
Date:
1808
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Credit: A memoir on the congenital club feet of children : and on the mode of correcting that deformity / by Antonio Scarpa ; translated from the Italian by J.H. Wishart ; with five original engravings by Anderloni. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    walk about. This circumstance, every one must perceive, renders this kind of treatment very imperfect, or, at least, only applicable to cases of slight deformity, and in children soon after birth, or before they begin to walk. § 3. For some time past, guided by the precepts of Hip- pocrates, where he speaks of these imperfections of the feet, and from some confused hints which I had been en- abled to collect, when in Paris, in the year 1781, during the lifetime of Tiphaisne, I have been engaged with the import- ant object of discovering a simple kind of apparatus, to act constantly in reconducting the distorted foot to its natural shape and direction with the tibia, without occasioning pain, or any considerable inconvenience to the children, and with- out their being obliged, during the cure of their feet, to be confined many months to bed, or at perfect rest, with the risk of injuring their general health. I can now affirm, that I have obtained the object which I had in view. Experi- ence has confirmed the efficacy of the method of cure, which I propose to describe in this essay, and which I am anxious to publish as early as possible, in order that the poor may immediately enjoy this benefit as well as the rich, which seems hitherto to have been reserved only for the latter. I am not aware whether the apparatus, I am about to de- scribe, be wholly, or in part, that of the late Tiphaisne, or that employed, at present, by Verdier in Paris, or by Jack- son in London; but the knowledge is, in my opinion, of