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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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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    ever fhall attempt to publifh a rational and fuccefsful method of treating thefe difeafes, t will render effential fervice to a very nu- merous clafs of patients^ if he fucceeds; but he cannot exped to do fo, unlefs he can eftablifh his fa6ts beyond the polTibility of contradidlion, and explain them fo as to avoid the imputation of empiricifm. ' The fituation in which I was biLj, having given me numerous opportunities of feeing thefe difeafes, in all their varieties, and 'of feeing they were always treated in a way from which little benefit was deriv- ed, naturally diredled my mind to the fub- je£l; and the nature of ray profcflfional ' education and purfuits, during the laft tPiventy years, having enabled me to con- fider them in a way that had efcaped the ob- fervation of others, and to make numerous experiments, in hopes of being able to cure them ; I at laft fucccedcd in fome cafes, in , • an