A system of surgery : theoretical and practical . urging the child to walk. Sometimeswe can, in addition, advantageously recommend the recumbent posture during cer-tain short periods of. the day, and combine with this repose the placing a soft padbetween the condyles, the limbs being extended, and the ankles being gently drawntowards each other by means of a soft bandage, strap, or other ligature, or by thehands of the surgeon or of the rvibber who has been taught by him (see figs. 37and 38). Long-continued experience has shown us that two things are indispensable—viz. to Fig. 37 represents a
A system of surgery : theoretical and practical . urging the child to walk. Sometimeswe can, in addition, advantageously recommend the recumbent posture during cer-tain short periods of. the day, and combine with this repose the placing a soft padbetween the condyles, the limbs being extended, and the ankles being gently drawntowards each other by means of a soft bandage, strap, or other ligature, or by thehands of the surgeon or of the rvibber who has been taught by him (see figs. 37and 38). Long-continued experience has shown us that two things are indispensable—viz. to Fig. 37 represents a moderate degree of Knock-knee in the act of manual reduction. If thesurgeon prefer, he may teach the rubber toaccomplish the same upon each knee singly, bypressing the internal condyle with one hand,and the outer malleolus with the other. Fig. 38 represents the same Knees asfig. 37 when straightened with thehands. During these manipulationsit is absolutely necessary that thepatellee sliould present upwards, to-wards the ceiling, not
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