The operative treatment of genu valgum / by Alexander Ogston.

  • Ogston, Alexander, 1844-1929.
Date:
[1877]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The operative treatment of genu valgum / by Alexander Ogston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The movements were continued on both limbs for a month, and were at first attended by crackling and grating, as if from rough or displaced cartilages, whenever the knees were flexed to a right angle. There was never any pain, and the movements became steadily smoother until, on the 9th July, seven and a half weeks after the operation on the left knee, and less than five weeks after that on the right knee, he was allowed to rise and walk. The movements speedily became normal, and he was dismissed, walking perfectly, on the 21st July. The patellse were even then tending to assume a more normal position. I am indebted to Mr James Gordon, student of medicine, Aber¬ deen, for the beautiful sketch of the boy after the first knee had been straightened. rUINTE]) BY OLIVElt ANJ) BOY]), EDINBintGl],