We find that some form of physical deformity maintains in almost every country.
Among some savage nations the leg is bandaged for a few inches above the ankle and for a few inches below the knee and the central part is allowed to expand as it will, and this deformity to them constitutes beauty.
The patient is easily tired, complains of pain in the bones, and, unless care is taken, deformity is liable to ensue.
At a later stage, and especially in neglected cases, operative and other measures may be required for deformityor ankylosis.
Deformity may also result from vicious union of a pathological fracture, permanent displacement of an epiphysis, contracture, ankylosis, or dislocation of the adjacent joint.
In the vertebral column, hydatids give rise to angulardeformity and paraplegia.
In children of five or six and upwards, the prospect of natural straightening is a diminishing one, and it is more satisfactory to correct the deformity by operation.
Slight contracture of the fingers is usually the first sign of the malady; in time the muscles undergo further contraction, and this brings about a claw-like deformity of the hand.
When deformity results from depression of a scar, as is not uncommon after the healing of a sinus, the treatment is to excise the scar.
A similar deformity of the thumb is sometimes met with.
If, when the patient first comes under observation, the limb is in a deformed attitude which does not readily yield to extension, the deformity should be corrected under an anæsthetic.
The deformity resulting from these necessarily heroic measures is not so great as might be expected, and can be further diminished by plastic operations, which should be undertaken before cicatricial contraction has occurred.
Recovery is often followed by cicatricial contraction leading to deformity of the face.
The leaves and roots beaten and applied to any part that is discoloured with freckles, morphew, the white scurf, or any such deformity of the skin, cleanses thoroughly, and takes them away.
Let no one present any strange or unwholesome thing to her, nor so much as name it, lest she should desire it and not be able to get it, and so either cause her to miscarry, or the child to have some deformity on that account.
I will tell nothing that I did not see; and among the objects one would certainly avoid seeing if it were possible, is the deformity of the poor.
To show the deformity of vice to the rising hopes of the country, the policy of ancient Sparta exhibited an inebriated slave.
We certainly wish these "Moods" had been less frequent, or not permitted to occupy a place near works which only make theirdeformity more obvious; when Mr. W.
But, on the whole, he resolved to trust the innkeeper--or it would be nearer the truth to say that he trusted to the power his deformity exercised over a man in whom he would not otherwise have placed much confidence.
Only she spoke with so much difficulty owing to the deformity of her mouth, that she had not yet been able to secure a turn.
Is it likely, therefore, that so refined and ingenious a people should not have found the means of remedying the deformity resulting from the loss of one or more front teeth?
From this moment, the injections being continued, a rapid improvement was obtained and the patient was so completely cured that no deformity of the face remained.
When a tooth is irregularly placed, or projects above the level of the others,[220] a deformity ensues which is particularly displeasing in women.
In this manner, says the author, the lower jaw grows smaller and the deformity disappears.
In speaking of the correction of dental anomalies, Hirsch relates a case in which the deformity consisted in the union of two central incisors, which formed one single piece, resembling a paddle, and spoiled the appearance of the face.
He had never seen her since, but her deformity and her face together had made it easy to remember her.
I began to be aware that, heavy affliction as it was to be made so different from my fellows, my outward deformity was but a picture of my inward condition.
But it soon became evident, as time passed and I grew no taller but more mis-shapen, that to bring me up to a profession would be but to render my deformity the more painful to myself.
That was at night, for my deformity brought me one blessed comfort--that I had no bedfellow.
No slave is permitted to bestow this deformity upon the head of his children; all the slaves, therefore, are roundheads.
As to the reduction of such a dislocation, the most that can be done is to diminish the deformity and functional disability by traction and palliative measures with apparatus.
In a girl of eight, of German parents, he reports deficiency of the external walls of each orbit, in addition to great deformity of the side of the head.
The eyelids swell so that the patient cannot see, and a deformity arises which exceeds that produced by syphilis.
The deformity was especially transmitted in the female line.
Kohler gives photographs of quite a remarkable case of suppression and deformity of the digits of both the fingers and toes.
This patient continually wore a gilded silver mask, which covered his deformityand rendered articulation a little less difficult.
He hides his deformityby wearing his hair long and combed over his ears.
The deformity was caused by a deficiency of osseous material of the bones of the head.
The deformity of the feet, however, had the happiest result, as the space between the great toe and its neighbor was much larger than ordinary and the toes much more mobile.
Figure 216 represents Orloff, "the transparent man," an exhibitionist, showing curious deformity of the long bones and atrophy of the extremities.
Analogous to rachitis is achondroplasia, or the so called fetal rickets--a disease in which deformity results from an arrest, absence, or perversion of the normal process of enchondral ossification.
Berard mentions a similar deformityand operation in a girl of eighteen.
He derived his name from a proboscis-like projection of his nose and lips, together with a peculiardeformity of the forehead.
It so happened that her negro husband possessed a sixth digit on each hand, but there was no peculiarity of any kind in the white man, yet when the mulatto child was born it actually presented the deformity of a supernumerary finger.
However, her long and wicked-looking face beamed with some secret delight; such an expression of wit and intelligence wreathing her thin lips and shining in her big eyes that one lost sight of her deformity and thought her almost pretty.
The chela which I suspect to be the normal is in several respects deformed as well as being reduced in size, and this deformity may perhaps have ensued as a consequence of the same wound which excited the growth of the extra pair.
And how attractive it might be, if the powers of pleasing, which can cover and even recommend the deformity of vice, were conscientiously excited in its behalf!
Already those earlier symptoms are constantly appearing, which, if not sternly checked, must in time grow into hopeless deformity of character.
Have the courage to place your feelings in all their natural deformity before you, and this sight will give you energy to pursue any regimen, however severe, that may be required to subdue them.
The tendency of flames is upward, and when the patient is lying down, they have not only less to feed upon, but the danger of their reaching the face, with the possibility of choking and of ultimate deformity is greatly diminished.
Also, by a deformityor a movable lump, caused by the broken end of the bone.
The third sign is deformity of the joint,--it looks queer when compared with the same joint on the other side.
The impression which I experienced in the Lyapinsky house had, at the very first, made me conscious of the deformity of my own life.
On the other hand, the bodily weakness and deformity may be slight, while the mental condition is very low.
From this point of view his mental deformity seems not unlike that of Cavendish's, later, except that in the case of Cavendish it manifested itself as an abnormal sensitiveness instead of an abnormal irritability.
He treated broken limbs in the suspended cradle still in use, and introduced the method of making "traction" on a broken limb by means of a weight and pulley, to prevent deformity through shortening of the member.
Deformity arises from the want of the common proportions; but the necessary result of their existence in any object is not beauty.
If the Bones of the Nose be not timely reduc'd, a great Deformity soon happens therein, and a Stink caus'd by the Excrescences and Polypus's.
If it be sufficient to make a longitudinal Incision in the Forehead; its Wrinkles may be follow'd, and there will be lessDeformity in the Scar; but it is never done Crosswise in this Part, and the Lips of the Wound are not to be cut.
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