Further studies upon the arch of the foot in infancy and childhood / by John Dane.

  • Dane, John
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Further studies upon the arch of the foot in infancy and childhood / by John Dane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    As a practical conclusion, I would urge the use of the so-called «flat-foot plates ” for children much more than I believe is at present the custom. Nature has shown us the principle by putting what may be called a physiological flat-foot pad in the feet of all stout, healthy children. Unfortunately, all children, as we see them in civilized life, are not healthy and fat, and in them the pad of fat under the arch is quite often wanting. It, therefore, seems to me our place as orthopedic surgeons to supply this deficiency at once by art, hoping thereby to save a useful and strong foot in place of one that will go on only too surely to flattening of the arch, pronation of the ankle, and all the series of troubles that accom- pany and follow these changes.
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