A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to shew under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise; with thirty-one cases that have been ... treated by the method for which the author has obtained the King's patent, and the specification of the patent for that purpose ... As well as for curing distortions of the spine, and every other deformity that can be remedied by mechanical applications / By T. Sheldrake.

  • Sheldrake, Timothy, Jr.
Date:
1798
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Credit: A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to shew under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise; with thirty-one cases that have been ... treated by the method for which the author has obtained the King's patent, and the specification of the patent for that purpose ... As well as for curing distortions of the spine, and every other deformity that can be remedied by mechanical applications / By T. Sheldrake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deferable to afccrtain, a priori, what proba- bility there is, that vve (hall fucceed in any cafe we may undertake. As I have reafon to believe, that many of thefe cafes are curable, at later periods in life than has been commonly fuppofed by thofe who would believe that any of them might be cured at all, I have endeavoured to fhew, by an enquiry into the progrefs of edifica- tion in the diflorted parts, and the differ- ence between the form and action of the mufcles, in the natural and in the difeafed date, under what circumftances thefe dif- eafes are curable, or otherwife. Thofe, whofe knowledge or information enable them to underhand this part of the animal economy, will determine, how far I have fucceeded in my undertaking, in this re- fpe£h The method of cure mud be continual- ly varied, according to the different circum - dances