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DISEASES OF THE HOESE'S FOOT 



Treatment. — In the main this condition may be regarded 

 as a long-standing and aggravated form of the foot with 

 unequal sides. We may say at once, therefore, that it 

 is not so easily remedied as that simpler defect ; that, 

 although identical principles will l)e followed in its treat- 

 ment, cure must be a matter of some considerable time. 



Fig. 85. — Section through a Crooked Foot. 



a, The higher and convex side of the wall ; h, the lower and concave side 

 of the wall. 



Again, we must look to successive parings of the wall of 

 the higher side to bring about a gradual return to the 

 normal. At the same time, the tendency to contraction of 

 that side is counteracted by shoeing wide, and, if necessary, 

 giving to the upper surface of that branch of the shoe what 

 we have termed elsewhere a 'reversed seating' — viz., an 

 incline of its upper surface from within outwards. 



