McComber's tracks for 1883. : Comprising descriptions of McComber's institution for the radical cure of foot distortions by conservative surgery, and also of McComber's fashionable army and navy shoes for ladies and gentlemen.

  • McComber, Joel
Date:
1882
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Credit: McComber's tracks for 1883. : Comprising descriptions of McComber's institution for the radical cure of foot distortions by conservative surgery, and also of McComber's fashionable army and navy shoes for ladies and gentlemen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE COHN HOCTOH DISMISSED. To cast out this mischicYous personage, to consign him to outer darkness, has long been my earnest desire. He liyes and thrives upon the misery of others, misery for v/hich he is directly responsible. He is as pitiful an ex¬ crescence upon society as are those which he pretends to remove. He is the venomous shark that follows the misguided craft of shoemakerdom, and preys upon its victims. The direct cause of his existence is, of course, the shoe-maker, who ignorantly creates clothing for the feet, which racks, strains, distorts and ruins them. The benight¬ ed shoe-maker fabricates the leathern thing which he calls a ^^shoe,^’ with one pointed end, and then tilts np the other end on a peg, wdiich he denominates heel,’’ and thus forces the poor foot forward into the wedge-shaped receptacle, by the whole weight of the body, and the added power of the muscles. The thumb-screw of the inquisition was not more absolutely terrible than are these miserable leather compresses, called boots and shoes. Is it any wonder that corns, and bunions, and distorted toes, and dreadful sufferings follow ? Is it strange that this Avicked stupidity of the shoe-maker begets a horde of pestilent corn-parers ? And since the Avell-being of the community demands that they be driven from the face of the earth, shall I not enlighten the public as to the cause of their existence, and call upon a public thus enlightened to aid me in their