. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. Fig. 217.—New York Ortho-paedic Hospital Brace forKnock-knee and Bow-legs. Fig. 218.—Knights Bow-leg-Brace. Fig. 219.—Boston ChildrensHospital Brace for Bow-legs. Appendix 837 The pressure should be as great as the child will bear without crying, and shouldbe maintained a minute or two, then relaxed and reapplied several times. In thevery slight grades of deformity these forcible intermittent pressure-exercises maybe sufficient to cure without the use of braces. In the Childrens Hospital in Boston, the apparatus in common use for bow-legs(Fig.

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. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. Fig. 217.—New York Ortho-paedic Hospital Brace forKnock-knee and Bow-legs. Fig. 218.—Knights Bow-leg-Brace. Fig. 219.—Boston ChildrensHospital Brace for Bow-legs. Appendix 837 The pressure should be as great as the child will bear without crying, and shouldbe maintained a minute or two, then relaxed and reapplied several times. In thevery slight grades of deformity these forcible intermittent pressure-exercises maybe sufficient to cure without the use of braces. In the Childrens Hospital in Boston, the apparatus in common use for bow-legs(Fig. 219) is a light but rigid steel upright, jointed at the ankle, attached below tothe sole-plate of the shoe. It runs up the inside of the limb nearly to the origin ofthe adductor muscles and is then bent forward and upward and curved to fit intothe groin and come up as far as the posterior part of the dorsum of the pads opposite the greatest convexity of the curve draw the limb over to theupright. For knock-knee a similar appa

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