The art of preserving the feet, or, Practical instructions for the prevention and cure of corns, bunnions, callosities, chilblains, &c. : with observations on the dangers arising from improper treatment, advice to pedestrians, &c., ... to which are added directions for the better management of the hands and nails / by an experienced chiropodist.

Date:
1818
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Credit: The art of preserving the feet, or, Practical instructions for the prevention and cure of corns, bunnions, callosities, chilblains, &c. : with observations on the dangers arising from improper treatment, advice to pedestrians, &c., ... to which are added directions for the better management of the hands and nails / by an experienced chiropodist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    part or the crown, and the stem ox internal part, which is generally, though impro- perly, called the root. This crown ge- nerally juts out from the surface, but a little flattened, and is roughest towards the centre. The stem is hard like a piece of horn, and is, for the most part, conical and pointed. Each corn has one, two, or three, or more divisions of surface, according to its number of stems; and in the centre of each may generally be observed a brownish spot, sunk deeply in, or else a horny and transparent substance ^ which penetrates to different lengths, advancing by degrees to the synovial capsule of the joints, or perhaps even to the periosteum, the membrane which co- vers the bone. Such are the general phenomena of acorn; yet still there exist apparent differences in them, so great as to have led to chemical analysis in order to as- certain if any real difference existed in their nature. But they have all been found alike to be insensible, unorganized