Health & beauty in dress from infancy to old age / by Ada S. Ballin.

  • Ballin, Ada S.
Date:
[1893?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health & beauty in dress from infancy to old age / by Ada S. Ballin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ject to continued dangers. Thus the cuticle is thickest on the soles of the feet, which are always subject to pressure from the ground, simi- larly the cuticle of the hands of mechanics, and of those who in their trades are obliged to handle rough, hot, or poisonous substances becomes thickened, and being itself insensitive and blood- less, protects the true skin, and enables it to con- tinue its important functions unharmed. In a - similar manner hard patches are formed by the thickening of the cuticle on the finger of the semp- stress, and on the fingers of those who play on stringed instruments, and these patches coincide with the part which comes in contact with the needle or strings. These portions of thickened cuticle are in reality corns, and they are formed on the feet in order to protect the true skin from the pressure of an ill-made boot, or from any roughness on the inside.