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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    ble peoj)le wlio would unite in tlieir foot- clotliing the essentials which they naturally seek in garments for other portions of the hod}g viz.: grace, ease, and freedom of motion, great durability, elegance of design and perfection of fit, together with a daily and gradual improyement in the size and contour of the foot, will pursue their inyesti- gation of this subject. SHOE-MAKING QUACKS. I ydsh I could do justice in words to the horde of shoe-making cpiacks ydiicli infest eyery street of our great cities and ply their merciless ayocation in eyery town, yillage and hamlet all oyer the broad land. But this is impossible. Language is inadequate to the task. To pro]3erly condemn the cruel bar¬ barities practiced upon the persons of their many yictims is beyond the power of the yocabularies of all the nations and tongues of earth. The habitations and the haunts of ciyilized man eyery where, haye echoed with the groans of the tortured multitude whose feet haye sullercd agonies unutterable from the wicked things of leather which haye been fastened ujDon them by the yandals and quacks of shoe-makerdom. There is not an inch of the green earth trodden by ciyilized man which has not been bathed in the blood of the yictims of this unholy and barbarous traffic. Yfhereyer ciyilized man plants his foot, whether u]')on the sands, of the seashore or the snows of the eternal mountains, he leayes the imprint of a beautiful organ uttcrl}’’