The Richmond and Louisville medical journal . Fig. RICHMOND AND LOUISVILLE MEDICAL JOURNAL. Vol. XXII.] AUGUST, 1876. [No. 2. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. uQui docet discit. Art. I.—A Case of Phalangeal Club-foot) or, Pes PJquinus ofthe Old Writers. By Claudius H. Mastin, M. D., D.,Mobile, Ala. It is well known that in this variety of deformity the patientwalks upon the ball of the foot, the toes, or the metatarsopha-langeal articulations; no other portion of the foot reaches theground; and for the obvious reason that the deformity is causedby a contraction or shortening of the gastrocnem
The Richmond and Louisville medical journal . Fig. RICHMOND AND LOUISVILLE MEDICAL JOURNAL. Vol. XXII.] AUGUST, 1876. [No. 2. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. uQui docet discit. Art. I.—A Case of Phalangeal Club-foot) or, Pes PJquinus ofthe Old Writers. By Claudius H. Mastin, M. D., D.,Mobile, Ala. It is well known that in this variety of deformity the patientwalks upon the ball of the foot, the toes, or the metatarsopha-langeal articulations; no other portion of the foot reaches theground; and for the obvious reason that the deformity is causedby a contraction or shortening of the gastrocnemial and solealmuscles; sometimes aided by a like defect in the flexor of thetoes, which prevents the heel being pressed down ; the footbeing all the while extended on the leg. Being a contraction of these muscles, it is very rarely a con-genital affection, and consequently depends upon some traumaticcause. Still in some varieties of congenital club-foot we finda complication of the phalangeal associated with other distor-tions of the foot; as in th
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