ON THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF CLUB-FOOT AND ANALOGOUS DISTORTIONS INVOLVING THE TIBIO-TARSAL ARTICULATION. BY BERNARD E. BRODHURST, ASSISTANT-SURGEON TO THE ROYAL ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL; SURGEON TO THE 424681 ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANTHONY ASHLEY-COOPER, D.C.L., F.R.A.S., EARL OF SHAFTESBURY, PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL, This Treatise is inscribed, IN TESTIMONY OF THE ASSIDUITY AND SUCCESS WITH WHICH HIS LORDSHIP DEVOTES HIMSELF TO THE CAUSE OF THE POOR AND THE AFFLICTED. MY LORD, I gladly avail myself of your kind permission to dedicate this Treatise to your Lordship. It embraces a portion only of an extensive subject, which has cursorily been brought under your Lordship's notice during your visits of inspection at the Orthopedic Hospital. Time will, I trust, enable me to render it more complete by adding other portions of the subject which yet remain to be treated of. Your Lordship knows well how large a portion of the community is afflicted with distortions of one kind or another, and how greatly these can be alleviated, if not entirely removed. A more comprehensive knowledge of these affections than at present obtains, is required to render Orthopædy generally available to the wants of the population. Should this treatise in any measure contribute to a better understanding of the affections in question, my object will be gained. I have the honour to be, MY LORD, Your most obedient, humble servant, THE AUTHOR. b |