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  • The very rustics and hog-rubbers, Menalcas and Corydon, qui faetant de stercore equino, those fulsome knaves, if once they taste of this love-liquor, are inspired in an instant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • (See rules for treating paralysis on page 124.) In talipes equino-varus where the toes come to the floor and the heel is drawn up and the foot inverted we massage the tibialis anticus, peroneus tertius and peroneus longus principally.

    Massage and the Original Swedish Movements 1918

  • In talipes equino-varus where the toes touch the floor and the heel is drawn up and the foot is everted, we treat the tibialis anticus and the peroneus tertius principally.

    Massage and the Original Swedish Movements 1918

  • The varieties of club-foot -- talipes varus, valgus, equinus, equino-varus, etc. -- are so well known that they will be passed with mention only of a few persons who have been noted for their activity despite their deformity.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The varieties of club-foot -- talipes varus, valgus, equinus, equino-varus, etc. -- are so well known that they will be passed with mention only of a few persons who have been noted for their activity despite their deformity.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The term "talipes" is commonly used to include all these, but here it will be restricted to that form in which the heel is more or less elevated, and the foot supinated so that it rests on its lateral border -- _talipes equino-varus_.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • The operative treatment aims at correcting the flexion at the knee, the equino-varus deformity of the foot, and at substituting the fibula for the absent tibia.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • The _treatment_ of paralytic equino-varus, short of operation, has been referred to under anterior poliomyelitis (p. 242).

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • In either case the leg is short and stunted, the knee is flexed, the foot occupies the position of extreme equino-varus, and the limb is useless.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • Similarly in the lower extremity, when, for example, the muscles innervated through the peroneal (external popliteal) nerve are paralysed, if the foot is allowed to remain in the attitude of inversion with the heel drawn up -- paralytic equino-varus -- an attitude which is rendered more pronounced by the pressure of the bedclothes, the chance of the muscles recovering their function is seriously diminished.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

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