The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . 374 DEFOKMITIES. In paralysis of the interossei, and of the short flexor, and the adductorof the great toe, the toes take the constant position of a claw, i. e., thefirst phalanges are extended upon the metatarsal bones, and the last twophalanges flexed upon the first under the influence of their antagoniststhe extensors of the first and last phalanges. These deformities are often complicated by paralysis or atrophyof some of the muscles of the leg, givingrise to various forms of club-foot. There
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . 374 DEFOKMITIES. In paralysis of the interossei, and of the short flexor, and the adductorof the great toe, the toes take the constant position of a claw, i. e., thefirst phalanges are extended upon the metatarsal bones, and the last twophalanges flexed upon the first under the influence of their antagoniststhe extensors of the first and last phalanges. These deformities are often complicated by paralysis or atrophyof some of the muscles of the leg, givingrise to various forms of club-foot. There is a form of deformity of the foot,usually congenital, and not uncommon,the origin of which has remained un-known up to the present time. This is avariety of club-foot which Duchenne calls hollow claw-foot, resulting from atro-phy or paraljsis of the interossei, and ofthe adductor and short flexor of the great top Fig. Claw-Foot. ^; . The accompanying diagram (tig. 542)sliows, 1st, that the first phalanges are extended almost to the point ofbeing subluxated upon the head of the met
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