A guide to health : for the use of soldiers / by R. C. Eaton.

  • Eaton, R.C.
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to health : for the use of soldiers / by R. C. Eaton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    The boots should be of such a size and shape as to allow of the free expansion of the foot during the act of walking ; the inner line of the boot should be straight, so as not to push the great toe outwards. The soles should be flexible and impervious to wet; the heels low and broad, for the purpose of giving firm support to the weight of the body. A perfectly rigid sole prevents the foot from exerting its natural spring and action, and tends to cause wasting of the muscles of the leg. * Boots or shoes that are made too narrow at the toes are liable to produce corns, bunions, and in-growing toe-nails. Professor Koch, in a lecture delivered at Berlin in 1888, stated that at the beginning of the last war, 30,000 men were made useless for service owing to unsuitable foot-gear. * A pair of light shoes might, with advantage, be substituted for the extra pair of ankle boots which the soldier carries in his pack- (R. C. E.).