The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Among the deformities of the lower limbs are frequently met bow-legs and knock-knee, and it has often appeared strange to me thatauthors should devote so much space in describing the latter condi-tion and should dismiss the former with a mere passing varum is usually looked upon as being the reverse conditionto genu valgum, although the angular appearance at the knee maynot be so marked in the former as it is in the latter condition. Inlooking over the literature of genu valgum we find that great
The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Among the deformities of the lower limbs are frequently met bow-legs and knock-knee, and it has often appeared strange to me thatauthors should devote so much space in describing the latter condi-tion and should dismiss the former with a mere passing varum is usually looked upon as being the reverse conditionto genu valgum, although the angular appearance at the knee maynot be so marked in the former as it is in the latter condition. Inlooking over the literature of genu valgum we find that great stress is ORIGINAL: LA FEE TE 489 laid upon the fact that the knee-joint is a peculiarly constructed joint;and that is given as one of the causes of that deformity. We arereminded that when a healthy femur is held perpendicularly the inter-nal condyle projects downward beyond the external to the extent offrom one-half inch to one inch. The internal lateral ligament is oftenrelaxed and the biceps muscle contracted in order to make the jointstiffer and more secure
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