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Foot - Diseases

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  • A man wearing a 'german corn plaster', which has caused his leg to shrink. Coloured reproduction of an etching.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • A man wearing a 'german corn plaster', which has caused his leg to shrink. Coloured reproduction of an etching.
  • A haggard old woman taking a large file to the corns on her feet. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1800, after himself.
  • A foot with disease designated as pompholyx (also known as eczema). Watercolour by Mabel Green, 1906.
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Catalogue

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    Anticors: product label. Lithograph.

    | Date: [1890?/1910] | Reference: 527269i
    Part of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.
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    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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    Remède radical contre les cors aux pieds: product label. Lithograph.

    | Date: [1890?/1910] | Reference: 526146i
    Part of: Labels for pharmaceutical packaging. Colour lithographs.
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    Clinical guidelines for type 2 diabetes : prevention and management of foot problems / written by A. Hutchinson and 4 others.

    Hutchinson, Allen | Date: 2000
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    De spinae dorsi distorsionibus et pede equino disquisito pathologico-therapeutica, adjecta novarum machinarum a viro celeberrimo Langenbeck inventarum descriptione : Dissertatio inauguralis, quam gratiosi medicorum ordinis auctoritate atque consensu in Academia Georgia Augusta pro summis in Medicina, Chirurgia atque Obstetrica honoribus rite obtinendis die XII. mens. Septembris anno MDCCCXXIX publice defendet. / Auctor Georgius Carolus Mühry ... Cum tabulis aeneis.

    Mühry, Georg Karl, 1806-1840. | Date: [1829]
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