Cleaveland, Diseases of the FEET, shoes, cures, RARE!

Causes and Cure of Diseases of the Feet: with Practical Suggestions as to their Clothing
by
C.H. Cleaveland

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 DETAILS: (Cincinnati): Bradley & Webb, 1862. First edition. Rebound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and modern endpapers. xi, 111pp. 32 b/w line drawings within the text (as called for). Size: 8vo - 5.5in (14cm) by 8.7in (22.3cm) (standard sized book).

CONDITION: Very Good (see table below for details). Rebound cover in near-pristine condition. Slight rubbing to corners. Gilt lettering clear and bright. Bookplates to front pastedown read: 'Ex Libris J. Colin Dagnall' (*see below for details), and 'Reed Library of the Foot and Ankle'. Large black pen inscription to modern front endpaper (Stewart Reed presenting book to J. Colin Dagnall). Title slightly foxed, with small stain to inner margin of page. Some foxing (mainly light) and sunning to pages. Hinges and binding firm. Collated and complete.*Photo(s) given of actual book.

CONTENTS: Charles Harley Cleveland graduated from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire in 1843, contributing many articles to the 'Eclectic Medical Journal'. Cleaveland would go on to hold the chair of 'materia medica and therapeutics' in the College of Eclectic Medicine. This work, published in Cincinnati in 1862, work provides a wide-ranging and quite detailed examination of the feet, and the various conditions affecting them.

Cleaveland notes in his introduction that 'To supply, in part, the information which was not readily attainable, even by physicians, a portion of the following work was published in the 'Journal of Rational Medicine'. Those articles having attracted considerable attention, I have thought the interests of the profession and of the people would be subserved by re-publishing them, with additions, in the present form, - particularly as no work covering the same ground had been published in America.'

Some of the more contents references include, amongst others, Mexican Mustang Liniment, Stockings of Pedestrians, Soldiers' Shoes, Magnetism in Needles of the Feet, Ladies Walking Shoes, Foot Baths, Sir Humphrey Davy's Corn Solvent, Berthold's Wash for Chilblain's, etc. etc.

The illustrations in the text depict various developments of the feet in terms of muscle and bone structure, and a few examples of the more common afflictions.

A rare work, in collectable condition. Copac lists only the British Library copy (none in Wellcome or New York Public Library as far as we can tell).

[This book comes from the private collection of chiropodial and podiatric literature amassed by eminent chiropodist J. Colin Dagnall. His collection was one of the largest of its kind in the world. 

Colin Dagnall trained at the London Foot Hospital in the late 1940s, and spent almost 50 years in private practice. Editor of the British Journal of Chiropody for many years, he was also an active member of many of his profession's governing bodies.

Many of the books contain the doctor's bookplates and private library cards, inscriptions from and to other prominent figures in the profession, and loose ms. notes. Where appropriate, we have noted these in the description, and left all such ephemera in situ as it came to us.

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