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154 CASUS ILLUSTRATING THE TREATMENT.
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The illustration (fig. 79) shows how the thiuub is applied along-
side the fibula in order to act as a splint while we extend and
flex the foot.
I met the patient on my way to Vienna at the end of April.
He then walked well, and it was only when he walked very
quickly that one could see that his foot had been injured.
The patient had no treatment on the following dates:
Tebruary l7th, 24th, and 25th, March 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th,
25th, 26th, and 27th.
Bearing in mind the structure of the foot, it will readily be
Fig. 79.
seen that it is possible to evert and invert it without danger
provided we take the precaution of placing the hand over the
point of fracture, and the foot be held at a right angle to the leg.
These movements do not, as we know, take place at the ankle-
joint, but chiefly at the astragalus, scaphoid, and calcaneo-cuboid
articulations.
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