The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . Fig. \\ Fig. 14. pathologists are agreed upon that point) it will be readily understood whythe ordinary appliances would fail to have any effect upon the method that I have followed for the last few years is that of Dr. Mac-Ewen, which consists of cutting the lower end of the femur about half an inchabove the epiphysis. This is done subcutaneously. In my cases the perios-teum was raised and the bone sawed under that membrane, which was raisedfrom the surface of the bone by means of the elevator (Fig. 12) which Ide
The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . Fig. \\ Fig. 14. pathologists are agreed upon that point) it will be readily understood whythe ordinary appliances would fail to have any effect upon the method that I have followed for the last few years is that of Dr. Mac-Ewen, which consists of cutting the lower end of the femur about half an inchabove the epiphysis. This is done subcutaneously. In my cases the perios-teum was raised and the bone sawed under that membrane, which was raisedfrom the surface of the bone by means of the elevator (Fig. 12) which Idevised some years ago. The operation is always done under strict aseptic precautions, and nounfavorable symptoms followed in any of my cases. The result can be betterappreciated by reference to the plates in the following cases. In about fourweeks the patients are usually able to walk around quite comfortably. Case 5.—L. J , seven years of age. Parents state that other members of their family in youth had been unhealthy and troubled with curvatures ofthe bones.
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