On the cure of club-foot without cutting tendons : and on certain new methods of treating other deformities . division of the tendons, the foot, ac-cording to the orthopaedic fashion, is fastenedinto a metal clog provided with screws, and aspring intended to press the limb into the present day these instruments are allfounded on the same principle, taken fromScarpas plan, although almost every ortho-paedist has a shoe of his own, in which hesees certain excellences, absent in his neigh-bours. Before Stromeyer ultimately esta-blished the immediate safety of subcutaneoustenotomy, shoes
On the cure of club-foot without cutting tendons : and on certain new methods of treating other deformities . division of the tendons, the foot, ac-cording to the orthopaedic fashion, is fastenedinto a metal clog provided with screws, and aspring intended to press the limb into the present day these instruments are allfounded on the same principle, taken fromScarpas plan, although almost every ortho-paedist has a shoe of his own, in which hesees certain excellences, absent in his neigh-bours. Before Stromeyer ultimately esta-blished the immediate safety of subcutaneoustenotomy, shoes of some sort or another wereused for the reduction of club-feet, and withsufficient success to give to certain cleverermachinists or better manipulators than their 48 ON THE CUEE OF CLUB-FOOT. fellows a wide celebrity. At the latter end ofthe last century, four specialists had suchreputation, Jackson in England, Tiphaisneand Yerdier in France, and Yenel in Switzer-land. They all kept their particular mechanismsecret; but by means of a patient treated inthe Swiss Institution, so much oozed out of FIG. From Mellets * Manuel dOrthopedie. THE MECHANICAL TREATMENT. 49 Yeners machine as to induce three Germans(Ehrenmann, Bruckner, and Naumburg,) tomake others in imitation. The instrumentconsisted of a wooden shoe or sole, at rightangles to which was affixed a staff of the samemetal. When the foot was firmly fastened tothe former, the staff was gradually approachedto the leg, so as to make the sole face moreand more downwards. I think there can beno doubt but that Scarpa took the plan andidea of his instrument from Naumburgs * andBruckners f imitation of Yenels apparatus,and substituted a perpendicular spring fortheir upright staff, and a horizontal one fortheir mechanism to overcome adduction; anidea which, if we credit his friend Malfatti, hehad obtained from Tiphaisne in a mannerwhich in England is considered discreditable,namely, by bribing his housekeeper. | How-ever this ma
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