. A practical manual of the treatment of club-foot. After First 8,1870. After manipulating the foot for about one hour,already described, the foot was dressed with ad- HO CASES. hesive plaster and a roller, and retained in its nat-ural position without any difficulty. (See Fig. 54.)Both from drawings by Dr. L. M. Yale, and bothdrawings made within two hours of each other. These dressings were changed from time totime as occasion required, and, when the child wasold enough to walk, a slight rubber elastic from Fig. the outer toe of the shoe to the garter was all thatwas r
. A practical manual of the treatment of club-foot. After First 8,1870. After manipulating the foot for about one hour,already described, the foot was dressed with ad- HO CASES. hesive plaster and a roller, and retained in its nat-ural position without any difficulty. (See Fig. 54.)Both from drawings by Dr. L. M. Yale, and bothdrawings made within two hours of each other. These dressings were changed from time totime as occasion required, and, when the child wasold enough to walk, a slight rubber elastic from Fig. the outer toe of the shoe to the garter was all thatwas required to guide the foot to its normal posi-tion. Galvanism, friction, and shampooing werecontinued until the child was two years old, whenthe cure was complete, and remains so. (See ) The following case shows what can sometimesbe done, even in the worst form of talipes, by in-telligent and persevering effort, without tenotomy,although the treatment was carried out entirely by CASES. HI the father (a non-professional man) after only twopractical lessons of instruction as to the principlesinvolved in the treatment of paralytic cases: Case XYIII.—Harry Buckhout, aged one year,was sent to me on December 29, 1869, by Dr. Hodgson, of White Plains, New York, withthe statement that he had been under treatment inan orthopedic institution in this city, by his advice,since he was eleven weeks old ; but, finding no im-provement, he had advised them to bring the childto me. He had been wearing club-foot shoes withstiff soles
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