The art of preserving the feet, or, Practical instructions for the prevention and cure of corns, bunnions, callosities, chilblains, &c. : with observations on the dangers arising from improper treatment, advice to pedestrians, &c., ... to which are added directions for the better management of the hands and nails / by an experienced chiropodist.

Date:
1818
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Credit: The art of preserving the feet, or, Practical instructions for the prevention and cure of corns, bunnions, callosities, chilblains, &c. : with observations on the dangers arising from improper treatment, advice to pedestrians, &c., ... to which are added directions for the better management of the hands and nails / by an experienced chiropodist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    course of medical regimen for supposed sources of disease which have no exist- ence. Corns sometimes appear between the toes ; they are then of a softer texture than when on the toes, arising from the natural moisture of the part. Again, though the outside of the joint is the general place of their appearance on the little toe, yet instances are not rare of their forming close to the outer side of the nail: and these are both trouble- some and dangerous, since, the existence of a corn in that place not being sus- pected, the sufferer is often induced to apply a pen-knife to it is as a common excrescence, thereby inflaming it even to a degree of mortification that has endan- gered life itself. These have been known, without any external appearance of hardness or inflammation, to excite the severest pain, destroying the rest, and even preventing the usual degree of bodily exercise; a circumstance that of