A treatise on corns, bunions, and ingrowing of the toe-nail : their cause and treatment / by T.J. Ashton.

  • Ashton, T. J. (Thomas John)
Date:
1852
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Credit: A treatise on corns, bunions, and ingrowing of the toe-nail : their cause and treatment / by T.J. Ashton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    “The following experiment, which I have repeatedly made, will prove the accuracy of these views:—If you pare an old corn slice after slice with a sharp knife, and observe the face of each section, you will come to a semitransparent surface, immediately beneath which, in two or three spots, you will perceive a red coloured point. This point is the ex- tremity of an hypertrophied papilla?, much larger than the rest. The next section will cut off the point of this papillae, and there will be a slight oozing of blood. Another section will cut off the heads of several, another again of still more. “Corns sometimes give rise to serious conse- quences ; by pressure on bursae they produce bunions; when seated on joints they often excite inflammation of the structures, entering into the formation of the articulation, exostosis of bones, &c. I once dissected a corn situate on the metatarso-phalangeal articulation of the little toe, which had made its way into the