. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . ?OBSK FOOT. TALIPKS VARUS. 524 Diseases of the Bones, etc. surgeons speak of the horse-shoe deformity—talipes equinas, repre-sented in figs. 110 and 112; of talipes varus, fig. Ill J and of talipescalcaneus, fig. 113. FJg. m Fig. TALIPK8 EQUINAB. TALIPES CALCANEUS. Causes.—Club foot may be congenital, i. «., produced in the wombbefore birth, and caused probably by some defect in the mothers habi
. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . ?OBSK FOOT. TALIPKS VARUS. 524 Diseases of the Bones, etc. surgeons speak of the horse-shoe deformity—talipes equinas, repre-sented in figs. 110 and 112; of talipes varus, fig. Ill J and of talipescalcaneus, fig. 113. FJg. m Fig. TALIPK8 EQUINAB. TALIPES CALCANEUS. Causes.—Club foot may be congenital, i. «., produced in the wombbefore birth, and caused probably by some defect in the mothers habitsor health. It may also arise from severe fevers, injuries of the spine,division of the sciatic nerve, long confinement and inactivity, or fromrheumatism or other inflammation of the muscles of the leg. Anycause or combination of causes that tend to deterioration of the con-stitutional integrity of the childs system, whether before or afterbirth, may give rise to this deformity. Debility, in short, is the greatthing to be feared. Treatment.—Club foot, when taken in early infancy, may often beremedied without resort to a surgical operation. The sooner the caseis commenced, the better the prospect of a cure. A surgeon or surgi-cal instrument maker should be applied to for a suitable apparatus tobe worn upon the foot. There should also be daily and frequent at-tempts at rectifying the deformity, by extending the limb
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