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Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

A treatise on corns, bunions, the diseases of nails, and the general management of the feet.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1845.

Durlacher, surgeon chiropodist to Queen Victoria, gave the first description of anterior metatarsalgia (p. 52), to which the name “Morton’s metatarsalgia” has been given (see No. 4341). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#4325
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/5548
Author Bio LinkPubMedCentral ↗
External URLa-treatise-on-corns-bunions-the-diseases-of-nails-and-the-general-management-of-the-feet

Geographic Context

Publication place: London