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...is consistent with the diagnosis of congenital *talipes equinovarus*, or clubfoot. In fact, *talipes* in Latin means “to walk on the _______.” *Talipes equinovarus*, a congenital abnormality recognized since antiquity, occurs in approximately 1 in 1000 of live births, affects males about twice as frequently as females, and involves both feet in about one half of cases. When unilateral, it is more common on the right than the left. When George Gordon Byron was aged ten, he became Lord Byron, inheriting the title of the sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale after his great-uncle died. He and his mother moved to Nottingham, near the decaying and debt-ridden estate of Newstead Abbey which he also inherited. There she employed a man known from our sources only by his surname, Lavender, who claimed an ability to cure her son’s deformity. Listed in the Nottingham directory as a surgeon, he was actually a maker of medical appliances for the general hospital. His **excruciating** regimen was to rub Byron’s foot with oil, twist it, and screw it up in a wooden contraption. His tutor remarked one day how uncomfortable he felt observing his student in such pain. “Never mind, Mr. Rogers,” Byron replied, “you shall not see any signs of it in me.” When Byron was taken to London in 1799, Dr Matthew Baillie (1761–1823) thought that early treatment might have greatly or wholly corrected the deformity, but by this time it was too late. Nevertheless, he had the bonesetter Timothy Sheldrake make some instruments for Byron’s foot. These were shortly abandoned, however, and he received a boot instead. Later that year, Sheldrake constructed a device that Baillie had designed to straighten the foot. Byron wrote: “My foot goes but indifferently. I cannot see any alteration.” Sheldrake reported that he made plaster casts of the deformity and, in his 1828 account in the medical journal Lancet, appended drawings of them. They indeed indicate a clubfoot, but on the left, not the right, suggesting that the figures were inaccurate, from another patient, or, in fact, genuine representations of Byron’s foot, reversed because of the engraving process, which creates mirror images of the original drawings. Shortly before Byron’s death in 1824 in Greece, Dr Julius Millingen (1800–78), although also misidentifying which side was affected, commented: “The foot was deformed and turned inwards; and the leg was smaller and shorter than the sound one [...] [T]here can be little or no doubt, that he was born club-footed.”
...is consistent with the diagnosis of congenital *talipes equinovarus*, or clubfoot. In fact, *talipes* in Latin means “to walk on the _______.” *Talipes equinovarus*, a congenital abnormality recognized since antiquity, occurs in approximately 1 in 1000 of live births, affects males about twice as frequently as females, and involves both feet in about one half of cases. When unilateral, it is more common on the right than the left. When George Gordon Byron was aged ten, he became Lord Byron, inheriting the title of the sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale after his great-uncle died. He and his mother moved to Nottingham, near the decaying and debt-ridden estate of Newstead Abbey which he also inherited. There she employed a man known from our sources only by his surname, Lavender, who claimed an ability to cure her son’s deformity. Listed in the Nottingham directory as a surgeon, he was actually a maker of medical appliances for the general hospital. His **excruciating** regimen was to rub Byron’s foot with oil, twist it, and screw it up in a wooden contraption. His tutor remarked one day how uncomfortable he felt observing his student in such pain. “Never mind, Mr. Rogers,” Byron replied, “you shall not see any signs of it in me.” When Byron was taken to London in 1799, Dr Matthew Baillie (1761–1823) thought that early treatment might have greatly or wholly corrected the deformity, but by this time it was too late. Nevertheless, he had the bonesetter Timothy Sheldrake make some instruments for Byron’s foot. These were shortly abandoned, however, and he received a boot instead. Later that year, Sheldrake constructed a device that Baillie had designed to straighten the foot. Byron wrote: “My foot goes but indifferently. I cannot see any alteration.” Sheldrake reported that he made plaster casts of the deformity and, in his 1828 account in the medical journal Lancet, appended drawings of them. They indeed indicate a clubfoot, but on the left, not the right, suggesting that the figures were inaccurate, from another patient, or, in fact, genuine representations of Byron’s foot, reversed because of the engraving process, which creates mirror images of the original drawings. Shortly before Byron’s death in 1824 in Greece, Dr Julius Millingen (1800–78), although also misidentifying which side was affected, commented: “The foot was deformed and turned inwards; and the leg was smaller and shorter than the sound one [...] [T]here can be little or no doubt, that he was born club-footed.”
Based on the information in this passage, which of the following is the most correct statement about Byron?
- A The treatment of his clubfoot was very successful.
- B He became rich after the death of his great-uncle.
- C He was a patient diagnosed with a clubfoot on the left.
- D He refused to see Mr. Roger anymore due to his clubfoot.
- E His deformed foot had been recognized since his birth.
思路引導 VIP
如果我們仔細觀察文章第一段用來分類這種病症的專業詞彙，並對照文章末尾醫生對拜倫病史所下的最終定論，關於這項生理特徵是在拜倫生命的「哪一個起點」產生的，作者提供了什麼樣的明確線索？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你準確鎖定了文章的核心細節！你能從眾多歷史敘述中，精確辨識出關於拜倫爵士生理狀況的關鍵定論，這代表你的閱讀理解與資訊整合能力非常出色。
先天性病症的判讀
這題的正確答案為 (E)，關鍵在於文中兩處重要的醫學描述。首先，文章開頭提到拜倫患有的畸形足屬於一種 congenital abnormality（先天性畸形）；其次，文章結尾引用了 Dr. Millingen 的話，明確指出「毫無疑問，他出生時就是畸形足 (he was born club-footed)」。這兩處資訊互為表裡，充分驗證了該症狀在出生時即已存在的結論。
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