A treatise on orthopedic surgery . Shoemakers feet. Shoemakers soles. ful movable member, provided with active muscles, but is smalland turns outward, so that the fore foot is somewhat pyramidalin form and turns upward as if to avoid contact with the o:round. 782 OETHOPEDIC SVBGEEY. This imagiuarv foot, drawn after the shape of the ordinary last,appears in the diagrams (Figs. 515 and 516). Upon it the soleof the shoe has been indicated, to contrast it with the shape ofthat necessary to include the outline of the normal foot. The. vSkiagram of a foot modelled to fit the shoe, illustrating the e
A treatise on orthopedic surgery . Shoemakers feet. Shoemakers soles. ful movable member, provided with active muscles, but is smalland turns outward, so that the fore foot is somewhat pyramidalin form and turns upward as if to avoid contact with the o:round. 782 OETHOPEDIC SVBGEEY. This imagiuarv foot, drawn after the shape of the ordinary last,appears in the diagrams (Figs. 515 and 516). Upon it the soleof the shoe has been indicated, to contrast it with the shape ofthat necessary to include the outline of the normal foot. The. vSkiagram of a foot modelled to fit the shoe, illustrating the etiology of hallux valgus. actual foot is thus compressed laterally by the shoe until thestretching of the leather, during the breaking-in process,allows it to overhang the sole. The great toe is forced outward,and, with its fellows, is compressed, distorted, and lifted offthe ground by the rocker-shaped sole (Fig. 518). Finally, al-though in the foot there is a well-marked metatarsal arch (con- DISABILITIES AND DEFOBMITIES OF THE FOOT. 783 vexity upward), tlie sole is made with a convexity the foot, according to the age at which the reshaping proc-ess is begun and the constancy of the application, is graduallychanged in shape and altered in function (Fig. 517). This remodelling, however, is often accompanied by such dis-comfort that the individual rebels and wears a shoe with a squaretoe, which, from the conventional standpoint, is supposed toshow a meritorious effort to follow nature. But the demonstra-tio
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