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.

Date:: [1785]

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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t ”o ] by Nature raugh, uneven, or furrowed, it is rarely pofïibie to improve them; but if their onîy defeéls are, tbat they incline iiaore to puih to the one fide than to the other—that they are too much covered at the roots—that, having been for a long time eut too fhort, they can no longer be made to extend to a level with the fkin—- then it cornes with-in the reach of an ex- pert Chiropodift to remove the evil, and to reflore them to their native elegance. It has been pretendedby numbers of the cmpyrical tribe, that when Nails, détec- tive even from Nature, hâve been made to fall ofF, by the means of a plafler appli- ed to them for that purpofe, they vvili be fucceeded by others beautiful, and well- formed. Expérience, however, proves the falfity of this notion ; and, under fuch ci L-

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