The medical age : a semi-monthly journal of medicine and surgery . Fig. io. Fig. ii. It is not many years ago that I followed very faithfully the teachings ofsome of our most eminent orthopedic surgeons and endeavored to correctcases of genu valgum by means of the braces usually constructed and appliedin those cases. I cannot now account for the reason why I adhered to the oldorthodox method and persisted for so long a time in attempting to correctthose deformities by the application of those braces, unless it was that I

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