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lengthening bears to abduction. To overcome the 

 adduction, and to restore the natural parallelism of the 

 limbs, the patient tilts up one side of his pelvis (Fig. 

 39). It thus happens that a patient with his femur 



Fig. 39. A, Parts in Normal Position. B, Femur Adducted. c, The 

 Adduction Corrected by Tilting up the Pelvis. 



ac, Line of pelvis; ab, limb on diseased side; cd, limb on sound side; e, the 

 spine. It will be found that in Figs. B and c, the angle at a is the sameiu 

 the two cases. 



flexed and adducted by disease may lie in bed with 

 both limbs quite straight and parallel, but with one 

 limb obviously shorter than the other. The flexion in 

 such a case is concealed by lordosis, and the adduction 



