Babyhood . he marked crowdingoutward of the greattoe. This foot, how-ever, is by no means sobad as many that arepresented to the sur-geons care. The de-formities caused byshoes that are too shortas well as too narrowand misshapen are socomplex that they can-not be represented indiagrams of the toes are doubledup and lie upon one another in a mannerthat in no way recalls the flexible foot of in-fancy. In the foregoing we have had no referenceto the deformities known as club-feet orthose resulting from disease, but have con-fined our remarks to the avoidable distortionsof the feet which
Babyhood . he marked crowdingoutward of the greattoe. This foot, how-ever, is by no means sobad as many that arepresented to the sur-geons care. The de-formities caused byshoes that are too shortas well as too narrowand misshapen are socomplex that they can-not be represented indiagrams of the toes are doubledup and lie upon one another in a mannerthat in no way recalls the flexible foot of in-fancy. In the foregoing we have had no referenceto the deformities known as club-feet orthose resulting from disease, but have con-fined our remarks to the avoidable distortionsof the feet which are caused by vicious feet-coverings, both shoes and stockings. Inas-much as it is in^early childhood that thesedistortions are begun, and, indeed, duringthe years of parental control that they arepractically effected, an account of how theyare produced and how they may be avertedis certainly worthy of the consideration ofthe readers of Babyhood, and in anothernumber we shall return to the subject. FIG. ARSENIC IN THE HOUSEHOLD. BY LUCIUS PITKIN, , Analytical Chemist. IT is certainly no proof of the doctrineconcerning the survival of the fittest that at this late day it is necessary to speakto those having the care of children aboutarsenic in the many forms under which itseeks and gains an entrance into our the poison have been written andtalked out of existence, it would long agohave disappeared ; but its vitality is not soslight, and now Massachusetts is consider-ing the expediency of legislating in regard toit. To be sure, the days in which it ran ram-pant in wall-papers and tarlatans loaded withParis green are no more. Popular know-ledge of the subject has rendered green sosuspected a color that it has had to tho-roughly reform, and now we find that the redsand blues in wall-papers are more commonlyarsenical than green itself. But we musthasten to say that there is absolutely nothingin appearance or in price by which we canjudge if a wall-paper be arse
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