Chiropodologia, or, A scientific enquiry into the causes of corns, warts, onions, and other painful or offensive cutaneous excrescences : with a detail of the most successful methods of removing all deformities of the nails; and of preserving, or restoring, to the feet and hands their natural soundness and beauty. The whole ... systematically confirmed by the practice and experience of D. Low, chiropodist.

  • La Forest, Nicolas Laurent, Chirurgien-Pédicure, active 1781.
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[1785]
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Credit: Chiropodologia, or, A scientific enquiry into the causes of corns, warts, onions, and other painful or offensive cutaneous excrescences : with a detail of the most successful methods of removing all deformities of the nails; and of preserving, or restoring, to the feet and hands their natural soundness and beauty. The whole ... systematically confirmed by the practice and experience of D. Low, chiropodist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I % refemblance to the head of a nail. By others it lias been flyled—quaintly enougb, it mufl be confcfTed*—the eye of the foot ; -an appellation that took its rife from a cer- tain black fpeck vifible on the centre of the Corn, and limilar, as alleged, to that on the eye, which is the infiniment of vâfîon. Few medical writers, even of antiquity, bave omitted to treat of Corns. Celfus, in his difïertation on the difeafes of the fkin, difl inguifhed tliem from other cuticu- s lar excrefcences, by the circumflance of their abounding lefs in blood. Bernard Valentine touches npon their nature, and their varions caufes, in his large fyflem of furgery ; and be, moreover, relates fundry in fiances of mifchief that had happened from the imprudent, or the unfkilful cutting of Corns.