Health lectures for the people . had been bornwithout arms attained distinction as an artist by wielding thebrush with his feet. We have seen how cruelly fashion deals with the female is almost as cruel to the foot. An immense amount of painand misery lies at the door of the shoemaker—corns, bunions,in-growing toe-nails—and all because a boot made according to THE HUMAN BODY. 45 the true shape of the foot is considered to be clumsy and in-elegant. Let me point out to you what the true shape of the humanfoot is. I need not ask you to look at your own feet in illustra-tion of this. Than
Health lectures for the people . had been bornwithout arms attained distinction as an artist by wielding thebrush with his feet. We have seen how cruelly fashion deals with the female is almost as cruel to the foot. An immense amount of painand misery lies at the door of the shoemaker—corns, bunions,in-growing toe-nails—and all because a boot made according to THE HUMAN BODY. 45 the true shape of the foot is considered to be clumsy and in-elegant. Let me point out to you what the true shape of the humanfoot is. I need not ask you to look at your own feet in illustra-tion of this. Thanks to your shoemakers,* I dont believe thatthere is a foot in this hall which is quite free from must examine feet which are altogether unacquainted withshoe-leather, such as those of an infant or a bare-footed such a foot we notice that the toes are widely spread out, andthat the great toe stands free from the others. If we draw a linefrom the centre of the heel along the sole to the extremity of the. Fig. 9. Fig. 10. Fig. 11. Natural foot. Outline of the sole of an The common condition in which ordinary boot. feet are found. Great toedeflected outwards. middle toe, and another backwards through the middle of thegreat-toe, the axis of the great-toe is seen to be parallel with thatof the foot. How different is the shape of that part of theordinary boot which encases the toes. The sole is pared awayon each side so as to make it pointed in front, or, as MrDowie has remarked, as if a great-toe was in the middle and a * Of late years shoemakers have been paying more attention to the shapeof the foot, but there is still a very great need for reformation in thisrespect. 46 THE HUMAN BODY.
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