A treatise on corns, bunions, the diseases of nails : and the general management of the feet / by Lewis Durlacher.

  • Durlacher, Lewis, 1792-1864.
Date:
1845
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Credit: A treatise on corns, bunions, the diseases of nails : and the general management of the feet / by Lewis Durlacher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    or by the licensing medical bodies making the diseases of the feet a part of the regular medical education, and also by examining those persons who wish to practise as chiropodists, and to whom, if found to be possessed of the requisite surgical information, a kind of sub-diploma, or certificate of qualification, for its practice as a special branch of science, might be granted. I hope the time will soon arrive when the chiropodist will rank with all other members of the profession, and that no infirmity, how- ever trivial it may seem, will be considered beneath the attention of the surgeon ; for, although corns and other disorders of the feet may not be regarded as properly coming under his notice, the operations for their relief require as much skill and dexterity as are necessary for the performance of those of greater im- portance ; and fatal consequences have fre- quently occurred from the want of proper treatment and attention. I fear the public will be somewhat dis- appointed at the paucity of the remedies I employ, and still more at not finding a certain panacea for corns. For the latter objection I have already assigned a cause; and with regard to the former, I can only say that, from the similarity that exists between the different