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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    for no other reason than that the parents or other relatives were troubled with them. I saw, some time since, a remarkable illus- tration of the hereditary nature of the dis- torted toe in the person of a gentleman of the name of O'Caghan or Caen. While in attendance on him I observed that he had a singularly-formed toe, and remarked that the distortion was peculiar to different families. He smiled at my observation, and told me that medical men were not alone aware of that fact, for that when travelling near the Giant's Causeway, he stopped at an inn kept by a man named Dick Caen, and claimed his hospitality on the score of relationship. The man stared at him, and said, Then by my shoul, sir, if you are an O'Caghan, you must have Prince O'Caghan's crooked toe. Various means have been devised to straighten the curved toes, by the use of hga- tures and the apphcation of strips of plaster, and more lately by the operation of dividing the contracted tendon, but I am not aware