. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. so encouraging muscular de-velopment, yet affording firm lateral support to the tarsus andFig. 224. — Shaffers also holding the inner side of the foot a little higher than theFlat-foot Support. outer side, which, therefore, is made to carry most of the weightI. Astragalo-scaphoid in walking. (See Fig. 224.)pad. 2, Inner side of Torticollis (p. 741).—The Taylor spinal-assistant brace,sole piece raised high- . , . , . , .... , . ,, . , er than outer side, 3. ^* ^^ chm-piece and occipital uprights, is well suited tothese cases. It can be readily
. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. so encouraging muscular de-velopment, yet affording firm lateral support to the tarsus andFig. 224. — Shaffers also holding the inner side of the foot a little higher than theFlat-foot Support. outer side, which, therefore, is made to carry most of the weightI. Astragalo-scaphoid in walking. (See Fig. 224.)pad. 2, Inner side of Torticollis (p. 741).—The Taylor spinal-assistant brace,sole piece raised high- . , . , . , .... , . ,, . , er than outer side, 3. ^* ^^ chm-piece and occipital uprights, is well suited tothese cases. It can be readily adjusted to any position ofthe head, and as easily re-adjusted to an improved position. Keen (Annals Surgery, October, 1891). Gardner {AnsiraXxd^n Medical Journal,February, 1893), Powers (New York Medical Jow-nal, i8g2, p. 253), and othershave resected the posterior branches of the upper cervical nerves with success afterresection of the spinal accessory had failed. Genu Recurvatum (p. 750).—Myers, in examining a considerable number of. Appendix 851 cases of genu recurvatum, found that the patella; generally develop later on, thoughthey may not be found at birth. Arrest of Development (746).—Hasse and Dehner (Arch. f. Anat. u. , 1893) have found that in the majority of cases the lower limbs are of un-equal length, that asymmetry is the rule and not the exception. Club-hand (p. 747)-—R. H. Sayre (New York Medical Journal, November 4,1893) operated upon an aggravated case in which the radius and thumb wereabsent, as well as the first metacarpal bone and a certain number of the carpalbones. The marked curve in the ulna was first corrected by osteotomy. Afterunion in a straight line was secured, and after several weeks of stretching the con-tracted tissues had failed, the styloid process of the ulna was cut off, the os magnumand unciform removed, and the end of the ulna put into the gap in the carpus thusformed. The hand is now approximately in line with t
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