Lectures on orthopedic surgery . e opposite defority,then, and not till then, can thetreatment be discontinued, the pa-tient discharged cured, and thecertainty of no relapse prognos-ticated. Tenotomy.—In so far as we know,the first section of a tendon forthe correction of clubfoot was anopen division of the tendo-Achillisby Lorenz at the suggestion ofThilenius, of Frankfort, in first subcutaneous tenotomyis claimed to have been done byMark Anthony Petit, in England, fig. dub-in 1799. But it appears that the foot brace applied. operation was not repeated, for more than 3
Lectures on orthopedic surgery . e opposite defority,then, and not till then, can thetreatment be discontinued, the pa-tient discharged cured, and thecertainty of no relapse prognos-ticated. Tenotomy.—In so far as we know,the first section of a tendon forthe correction of clubfoot was anopen division of the tendo-Achillisby Lorenz at the suggestion ofThilenius, of Frankfort, in first subcutaneous tenotomyis claimed to have been done byMark Anthony Petit, in England, fig. dub-in 1799. But it appears that the foot brace applied. operation was not repeated, for more than 30 yearslater William J. Little could find no one -in England toundertake the operation. On the continent, Michaelisoperated in 1811, Sartorius in 1812, Delpech, of Mont-pellier, France, did subcutaneous tenotomy of thetendo-Achillis in 1816. But to Stromeyer, of Hanover,more than to any other, do we owe the development ofthe operation in 1831. To Stromeyer went Dr. WilliamJ. Little, of London, for the cure of his own foot when. 320 he could find no one in England willing to do the newoperation. Little introduced the operation into London^in 1836. In America the first subcutaneous tenotomy forthe cure of clubfoot was made by Dr. David L. Rodgers,of New York, in 1834, and the next by Dr. James , of North Carolina, in 1835. Dr. William Det-^mold, of New York, operated in 1840, and did more topopularize the operation in this country than any othersurgeon. He was followed by David Prince, who wrotein 1866, Louis Bauer, 1868, and Lewis A. Sayre, in1875. The comparatively recentdate at which this operation wasgenerally accepted may be realizedby an editorial note in Dr. Town-sends translation of VelpeausSurgery, edited by ValentineMott, in 1847. After reviewing theoperation the editor says : Not-withstanding the facts, the questionof tenotomy still remains unde-cided. The operation as performed bymost surgeons in England andAmerica at the present day is prac-tically the sam
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