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

  • Ballin, Ada S.
Date:
[1893?]
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Credit: Health & beauty in dress from infancy to old age / by Ada S. Ballin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Corns. This being so, it is evident that to talk of the “ root ” of a corn, and of extracting the same, as chiropodists do, is pure quackery. The corn is really a natural protection, and however well it may be attended to, if the cause continues it must grow again. The only way to get rid of corns is to adopt properly made boots after removing the trouble by the use of a solvent, such as a solution of one drachm salicylic acid in one ounce of flexile collodion, to be painted on the hardened part in the case of hard corns ; by poulticing with bread poultices or by the use of castor-oil poultices in the case of soft corns. It may perhaps be thought that in proportion to the space devoted to other subjects I have given too long consideration to the clothing of the feet; but the matter is one of so great importance that I could have wished to say more about it, for I believe that if people only knew how much harm they are doing to themselves and their children by their general treatment of the feet they would at once adopt more rational principles. On all those who lament that painful feet, disinclination for exercise, and other affections such as I have de- scribed in earlier parts of this volume are some of the “ ills that flesh is heir to,” I would fain impress the advice of Milton :— Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. R 2