A treatise on orthopedic surgery . , each foot appears to be somewhat triangular, being broadat the front and narrow at the heel. The imprint shows the areaof bearing surface, and owing to the fact that but a small por-tion of the arched part of the foot rests upon the ground it ap-pears to be twisted inward. The sole of the shoe, if it is toenclose and support the bearing surface, must conform to thisinward turn. It must be straight along the inner border to fol-low the normal line of the great toe, and a wide outward sweepwill be necessary in order to include the outline and thus avoid
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . , each foot appears to be somewhat triangular, being broadat the front and narrow at the heel. The imprint shows the areaof bearing surface, and owing to the fact that but a small por-tion of the arched part of the foot rests upon the ground it ap-pears to be twisted inward. The sole of the shoe, if it is toenclose and support the bearing surface, must conform to thisinward turn. It must be straight along the inner border to fol-low the normal line of the great toe, and a wide outward sweepwill be necessary in order to include the outline and thus avoidcompression of the outer border of the foot (Fig. 514). This demonstration of the true form of the foot is almost anindispensable preliminary to an intelligent discussion of the DISABILITIES AND DEFORMITIES OF THE FOOT. 781 relative merits of shoes, and, indeed, it is somewhat of a revela-tion to those who have thought of the foot only as it has beensubordinated to the arbitrary and conventional standard of the Fig. 513. Fig.
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