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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I [ 126 ] common red Precipitate in' fuch cafés, yet it would require, at leaft, tbe fkill of a Turner toufe fo violent a corrofîve with tolerable fafety. The defedls in the conformation of the Nails proceed, as I hâve already obferved, from a greater afflux of hu- mours to the parts than is neccffary for their growth. This fnperflnity, lodging îtfeîf under the angles, or at the extre- mities, of the Nails, renders them rough and protubérant ; and in order to reduce them to a proper lize, or even to mitigate the pains of which they are thus produc- tive, no rnethod can be better than that o.f fera pin g them, . * -r f . ^ ^ . 5 . - ! As the Nails, when orîgînally misfa- fhioncd by nature, feldom, if ever, allume - a more

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