A new mode of treatment of congenital talipes : also a new mode of amputation at the ankle-joint / by I.N. Quimby.

  • Quimby, I.N.
Date:
1875
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Credit: A new mode of treatment of congenital talipes : also a new mode of amputation at the ankle-joint / by I.N. Quimby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the advantages of this amputation over any other at the ankle-joint. The advantages of this operation are : First, that the relations of the tibia and fibula, and of their cartil- aginous surfaces, are not in the least disturbed, and there is on that account a better chance for the growth and develop- ment of the limb in young subjects. That the limb con- tinues to grow and attain its full development in exact proportion and equally with the sound limb, is proven beyond contradiction by the two casts that I here present. The operation in this case, as above stated, was performed May 18, 1866. The two casts which I here present were taken under my direction on the 28th of April, 1870. One is a model of the sound limb, the other was taken from the limb on which the operation was performed, and it is obvious that the one is as well developed as the other. The second advantage of this operation is that the vascular relations of the principal flaps are much less disturbed by dissection, and there is therefore much less danger of sloughing or tardy or imperfect healing of the wound. The third advantage is that it gives a more perfect stump, better adapted to bear all the weight of the body than those resulting from Syme’s or Pirogoff’s operation. Fourth, the Cast of sound liml) four years after the operation. Cast of amputated limb four years after the operation.