. Annals of hygiene. different sizesand forms, which exhibit the grades and dons, ligaments, and bones in strainedrelations, impeding, if not arresting,the process of formation, waste andrepair. It disturbs the joints of thediversely shaped surfaces of the manysmall bones comprising the instep,destroys the easy, free, and elastic mo-bility of the joints, and transforms thedifferent bones into a rigid body notunlike a shoemakers last. The exces-. phases of childhood development ingreat variety. The feet and ankles ofthe larger number of girls were gearedin shoes with heels so high and sle
. Annals of hygiene. different sizesand forms, which exhibit the grades and dons, ligaments, and bones in strainedrelations, impeding, if not arresting,the process of formation, waste andrepair. It disturbs the joints of thediversely shaped surfaces of the manysmall bones comprising the instep,destroys the easy, free, and elastic mo-bility of the joints, and transforms thedifferent bones into a rigid body notunlike a shoemakers last. The exces-. phases of childhood development ingreat variety. The feet and ankles ofthe larger number of girls were gearedin shoes with heels so high and slenderas to fasten them in the position as ifalways walking down hill, the toes be-ing pushed more and more rigid fixation of the feet in thisunnatural position diminishes theirsize, lessens the spring and elongationof the double and elastic arch of theinstep, and confines the muscles, ten- sive elevation of the heel displaces thecentre of gravity, which should coincidewith the centre of movement, and trans-fers the weight of the body, for the mostpart, from the heel to the metatarso-phalangeal articulations—joints arrang-ed with shallow sockets to facilitatemovement in every direction, and toexpedite progressive motion, but notto bear the burden of the body-weight. The movement, attitude, and poiseof those whose feet were thus tackled 24 THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE. ?with fashions latest and choicest pat-tern of high-heeled shoes, werannalsofhygiene1188penn
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