. Observations on lateral & angular curvature of the spine, wry-neck, club-foot, and other orthopedic affections : with report of cases. Fig. 6. — After congenital equinus, converted, by pressure in walking, intoequino-varus. The parts divided were an adventitious liga-ment, broad, thick, and unyielding, which extended from theos calcis to the base of the great and second toes, — this wasformed, probably, from the plantar fascia, — the flexor longuspollicis and the tcndo-Achillis. 23 This case was remarkable, not only for the severity of thedistortion, but also, considering the age
. Observations on lateral & angular curvature of the spine, wry-neck, club-foot, and other orthopedic affections : with report of cases. Fig. 6. — After congenital equinus, converted, by pressure in walking, intoequino-varus. The parts divided were an adventitious liga-ment, broad, thick, and unyielding, which extended from theos calcis to the base of the great and second toes, — this wasformed, probably, from the plantar fascia, — the flexor longuspollicis and the tcndo-Achillis. 23 This case was remarkable, not only for the severity of thedistortion, but also, considering the age of the patient, forthe unusual rapidity of the cure. The operation was doneon the 22d of September. On the 30th, the toes werestraight, the foot at a right angle with the leg; and thepatient, for the first time in his life, could place his heelupon the floor. Fig. 6 is the same foot after treatment. The follQwing case is remarkable only on account of theage of the patient; being the oldest ever operated upon forthe cure of club-foot, so far as known, either in this countryor in Europe. Mrs. S. of Boston, aged seventy-three, was attacked withhemiplegia,
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