The foot : its pains and penalties; being a concise view of the disorders of the feet; with avice for their proper treatment / by Lewis Durlacher.

  • Durlacher, Lewis.
Date:
1850
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Credit: The foot : its pains and penalties; being a concise view of the disorders of the feet; with avice for their proper treatment / by Lewis Durlacher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from the circulating medium. These theo- ries, while they may be regarded as amusing, are not altogether void of interest. In this state our knowledge as to the anatomy of the skin continued up to the end of the eighteenth century. A new impetus has, however, of late been given to investigations respecting it, by the discoveries made with the microscope. The friction and pressure to which all pro- minent parts of the extremities are exposed, cause, by the local irritation they produce, the effusion or secretion of a larger quantity of outer skin than can be got rid of by the ordinary processes of nature. The scales consequently accumulate, and lie layer upon layer, forming indurated masses of larger or smaller size, constituting corns, callosities, or other diseases of the part, according to their situation, and the severity of the pressure or friction. Very few adults possess that manly gait which should distinguish the human form divine, in consequence of the confined and