The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . Fig. 17. Fig. 18. for which internal remedies were administered while he remained in theChildrens Hospital and for some time after he left us. (See Figs. 13and 14.) Case 7.—L. T , aged four years. This child had been a great sufferer from rickets from birth, and this had left a condition of marked curvature ofboth femurs anteriorly and externally; genu valgum of both sides, whichwas especially pronounced in attempts at walking, when the knees wouldstrike together; an anterior curve of both tibias; and a relaxation of theinterna
The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . Fig. 17. Fig. 18. for which internal remedies were administered while he remained in theChildrens Hospital and for some time after he left us. (See Figs. 13and 14.) Case 7.—L. T , aged four years. This child had been a great sufferer from rickets from birth, and this had left a condition of marked curvature ofboth femurs anteriorly and externally; genu valgum of both sides, whichwas especially pronounced in attempts at walking, when the knees wouldstrike together; an anterior curve of both tibias; and a relaxation of theinternal lateral ligament of each ankle, producing a condition almost akinto talipes valgus. The cutting of the two femurs was done May 20, 1897. The operation onthe tibias, consisting of taking a V-shaped piece of bone from the anteriorpart, was performed August 21, 1897. (See Figs. 15 and 16.) Case 8.—V. T , three and a half years of age; admitted with a very pronounced deformity of left leg. Osteotomy of femur performed March 10,1897. Wound done up as in the pre
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