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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    [ *5 1 Corns. Juncker enters copionfly upon the fubjeél of them, and lays down a variety of methods by which they may be cured. Verduc has noticed them alfo, in his Pathology ; nor did the great Heifler think it beneath him to devote a whole chapter to a difculîion of the means by which relief might be obtaïned from fuch troublefome, if not dangerous complaints. Corns hâve alfo been commented on by Dolœus in his Encyclopédie; by Pigray in his Epitome ; by Col-de-Villars, in his Courfe of Surgery ; by Lavanguion in his Treatife of Operations ; by Freke in his Art of Healing ; and by a variety of other gentlemen highly celebrated in the medi- cal vvoi ld. If we attend ever fo minutely, neverthelefs, to ail that has been faid by them on the fubjedl, we fhall ftill hâve thc