A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to show under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise : with thirty-one cases that have been successfully 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, active 1783-1806.
Date:
1798
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to show under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise : with thirty-one cases that have been successfully 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.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    .( 113 ) * extenfion. The figure 13, reprefents the ‘ back view of a patient with diftorted fpine, ‘ and, in confequence, proje6lion of the ‘ ribs, and enlargement of the fcapula on ‘ one fide, with a proportionate diminution ‘ of thofe parts on the other fide,; and, fi- ‘ gure 14, reprefents ,the fpinal machine ‘ (which forming no part of my prefent ‘ invention^ it is unnecefiary for me to ^ t ‘ defcribe) with additions upon the prin- * ciples of this invention, confifting of a ‘ pad, a. b. c. d. properly guarded, and con- ‘ nedted with fprings c. t. and f.f.^ fixed ‘ to the back of the machine at e. and f., ‘ and intended to prefs on the projedling ‘ ribs; another pad, h. 1. k. conne6led by ‘ fprings,' with the infide of the back of ‘ the machine, and intended to prefs on ‘ the proje6ling fcapula ; one elaftic fpring ‘ ftrap, connected with it, is intended to ‘ deprefs the elevated fhoulder, h. g. k, and ‘ a fimilar one, 1. m. n> to raife that which ‘ is below its proper fituation. ' Whoever ‘ confiders the general principles of this ‘ my invention, in this, its application to * the clafs of difeafes at prefent under ‘ com-