. A manual on foot care and shoe fitting for officers of the Navy and Marine corps. tural abnormalities which may produce certain welldefined constitutional symptoms. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOtOGY OF THE FOOT The human foot, considered in its entirety, is indeed a verywonderful anatomic part of the individual. In the smallnessof its size and weight, out of all proportion to the burdenborne and carried, it constitutes a mobile, strong, flexible andefficient member of the organism designed to bear weightforwards, backwards, and sideways without mishap. Encasedin a cloth covering, the sock, an
. A manual on foot care and shoe fitting for officers of the Navy and Marine corps. tural abnormalities which may produce certain welldefined constitutional symptoms. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOtOGY OF THE FOOT The human foot, considered in its entirety, is indeed a verywonderful anatomic part of the individual. In the smallnessof its size and weight, out of all proportion to the burdenborne and carried, it constitutes a mobile, strong, flexible andefficient member of the organism designed to bear weightforwards, backwards, and sideways without mishap. Encasedin a cloth covering, the sock, and in a protective leather cover-ing, the shoe, both concomitants of an advancing and exactingcivilization, this member, the most unintentionally neglectedpart- of the body is fully expected to do its duty indefinitelywithout complaint. As with other mechanisms, mechanical FOOT CARE AND SHOE FITTING or Otherwise, so with this, ignorance cannot accomplish satis-factory results. calcaneus (OS CALCIS.) HEEL BONE STATIC PORTIONOF THE bones; DYNAMIC PORTION,OF THE BONES. SURFACE OF TALUS (ASTRAGALUS)FOR ARTICULATION WITH TIBIA(LOWER LEG BONE ) CUBOID NAVICULAR (SCAPHOID) THIRD ) SECOND y CUNEIFORMS FIRST } METATARSALS PHALANGES (TOES.) Fig. I.—Skeleton of right foot from above. (Cunningham.) Dotted lineshows anterior arch formed by metatarsal bones. Concisely, the structure of the foot is composed of a nicelyadjusted aggregation of twenty-six bones of various sizes and ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 9 shapes, each, however, designed to perform a certain definitefunction. Seven of these are of a very irregular shape and arelocated in the hind part of the structure forming the heel and aportion of the so-called instep. The remaining nineteen, situ-ated in the forepart of the foot, form a portion of and radiatefan-like from the instep. These extend forward and to theouter and inner sides finally ending in the toes. (See illus-tration No. I.) These different bones are
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