Cure of club-foot, bent knee, wry-neck, spinal, and other deformities : with remarks on the late progress of art and on the necessity of a public institution for the relief of the poor, labouring under deformities / by Gustav Krauss.

  • Krauss, Gustav.
Date:
1839
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cure of club-foot, bent knee, wry-neck, spinal, and other deformities : with remarks on the late progress of art and on the necessity of a public institution for the relief of the poor, labouring under deformities / by Gustav Krauss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is far from my intention to exalt my own merits, or cast blame on others for not having been equally successful. The cause of my success is attributable to my having dedicated myself more to this subject, and taken peculiar pleasure in its study. Shrinking from no sacrifice where the welfare of my patients and the development of science were concerned, I proceeded steadily in my career. But while my activity has ever been on the in¬ crease, I find serious impediments to contend against: in the dispersed position of the patients on the one hand, and the unfavourable worldly circumstances of many of them on the other. My sincere desire is, therefore, that the pro¬ fession, in common with all friends of humanity, should acknowledge the necessity, and heartily assist in the establishment of a public institution, for the relief of the poorer classes labouring under deformities. With this view, and in order to illustrate by facts the great improvements which have been made in Orthopagdia, I submit these pages to the public. It results from their design, that I should avoid a purely scientific treatment of the subject; and I have endeavoured as much as possible to make it intelligible to the general reader. I have evinced elsewhere to my professional brethren how I have estimated and promoted the subject, considered scientifically. I refer here to