1755 ROUSSELOT ( – 1772)
Memoire sur les cors des pieds.
The first publication on podiatry, a pamphlet of 19, [1] pp. informally issued by Rousselot to promote his practice. Because of the non-standard title page without mention of place, publisher or date, the pamphlet see…
GMN 9190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11371
1762 ROUSSELOT ( – 1772)
Nouvelles observations, ou méthode certaine sur le traitement des cors.
The first formally published pamphlet (45pp.) on podiatry or chiropody. Rousselot argued that podiatry should become a specialty of surgery. Author's first name is unknown. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this l…
GMN 4302.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5462
1781 CAMPER, Petrus (Pieter) (1722 – 1789)
Dissertation sur la meilleure forme des souliers.
Classic discussion of childhood shoe-induced deformities. There was also an edition in Dutch published the same year. Digital facsimile of the edition in French from the Internet Archive at this link. English translat…
GMN 4305.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5484
1781 LAFOREST, Nicholas-Laurent
L’art de soigner les pieds, contenant: Un traité sur les cors, verrues, durillons, oignons, engelures, les accidens de ongles & leur difformité.
Laforest was the first to describe and illustrate the condition of hallux valgus. The second edition of this work (1782), "Augmentée d’un chapitre sur la manière de soigner les pieds des soldats en garnison & dans les…
GMN 9586 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11773
1802 LION, Heyman
An entire, new, and original work; being a complete treatise upon spinae pedum; containing several important discoveries. Illustrated with copperplates exhibiting the different species of spinae.
The first original British work on podiatry, with several illustrations, one hand-colored. Disappointed at being refused a medical degree, Lion, a German Jewish émigré, wrote this book, taking the unusual step of havi…
GMN 9581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11768
1803 SCARPA, Antonio (1752 – 1832)
Memoria chirurgica sui piedi torti congenita dei fanciulli.
First accurate description of the pathological anatomy of congenital club-foot. English translation, Edinburgh, 1818.
GMN 4308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5497
1809 GUTHERY, Andrew
A treatise on the origin, nature, & treatment of corns, and those affections of the joints of the toes termed bunyons.
Guthery characterized himself on the title page as "Chirurgo-Podist to the Royal Family." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9583 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11770
1823 –1828 DELPECH, Jacques Mathieu (1777 – 1832)
Chirurgie clinique de Montpellier. 2 vols.
Delpech's work includes the first account of rhinoplasty in France. On 4 June 1823, Delpech performed the first of six cases of rhinoplasty by the Indian forehead flap method, and one (unsuccessful) with a flap from t…
GMN 4312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6544
1831 REULIHET
Traité des maladies cutanées des pieds, telles que cors, oignon, durillons, verrues, ongles, etc.
Probably the first book specifically on the skin diseases of the feet, including the functions and nature of the skin of the feet and the manner in which perspiration takes place in the feet. Nothing is known regardin…
GMN 9354 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11536
1833 STROMEYER, Georg Friedrich Ludwig (1804 – 1876)
Die Durchschneidung der Achillessehne, als Heilmethode des Klumpfusses, durch zwei Fälle erläutert.
Successful tenotomy for clubfoot established the reputation of Stromeyer as an orthopedic surgeon.
GMN 4320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5537
1839 LITTLE, William John (1810 – 1894)
On the nature of club-foot and analogous distortions.
Little suffered from club-foot himself. This is the greatest English classic on the subject. See No. 4329.
GMN 4322.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5540
1839 BROWN, John Ball (1784 – 1862)
Operations on club-feet.
Brown was the first surgeon in the United States to specialize in orthopedics, founding the Orthopedic Infirmary of the City of Boston (soon renamed the Boston Orthopedic Institution) in 1838. Brown was also the first…
GMN 4322.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5541
1841 DIEFFENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1792 – 1847)
Ueber die Durchschneidung der Sehnen und Muskeln.
Report on 140 cases of tenotomy for treatment of club-foot.
GMN 4323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5542
1845 DURLACHER, Lewis (1792 – 1864)
A treatise on corns, bunions, the diseases of nails, and the general management of the feet.
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 Inte…
GMN 4325 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5548
1860 ZACHARIE, Issachar (1827 – 1900)
Surgical and practical observations on the diseases of the human foot, with instructions for their treatment. To which is added advice on the management of the hand.
A controversial, and not necessarily original work, notable as having been written by Abraham Lincoln's chiropodist (podiatrist), who gained the confidence of Lincoln and served as Lincoln's representative to the Jewi…
GMN 9584 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11771
1875 THOMAS, Hugh Owen (1834 – 1891)
Diseases of the hip, knee and ankle joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method.
Thomas splint. Enlarged second edition, 1876. See No. 4348.
GMN 4340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5693
1876 MORTON, Thomas George (1835 – 1903)
A peculiar and painful affection of the fourth metatarso-phalangeal articulation.
First complete description of anterior metatarsalgia (“Morton’s disease”). See also No. 4325.
GMN 4341 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5695
1882 ALBERT, Eduard (1841 – 1900)
Einige Fälle von kunstlicher Ankylosenbildung an paralytischen Gliedmassen.
Albert introduced the concept of joint arthrodesis into orthopedic surgery. This is the first description of arthrodesis of an ankle for paralytic foot. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 52-54.
GMN 4347 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5733
1883 –1890 THOMAS, Hugh Owen (1834 – 1891)
Contributions to surgery and medicine. 8 pts.
Thomas was the veritable founder of modern orthopedics in the British Isles. The conservative methods introduced by him were developed by Sir Robert Jones. Thomas is remembered eponymically by the “Thomas splint”.
GMN 4348 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5739
1892 PARRISH, B. F.
A new operation for paralytic talipes valgus, and the enunciation of a new surgical principle.
First successful tendon transplantation.
GMN 4363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5812
1908 KÖHLER, Alban (1874 – 1947)
Ueber eine häufige, bisher anscheinend unbekannte Erkrankung einzelner kindlicher Knochen.
“Köhler’s disease” of the scaphoid bone of the foot in children. See No. 4387.
GMN 4377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5882
1914 LEWI, Maurice J. (1857 – 1957)
The text book of chiropody: A treatise bearing upon all the elements of medicine, of surgery and of the kindred sciences having for its purpose the thorough education of those who wish to learn and to practise the scientific care of the human foot in health and in diseases. Comp
" ... the first modern chiropodial book. This voluminous work attempted to combine all chiropodial knowledge up to that date, with outline of the basic sciences and the teachings of other medical disciplines. It is an…
GMN 9585 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11772
1920 KÖHLER, Alban (1874 – 1947)
Eine typische Erkrankung des 2. Metatarsophalangealgelenkes.
“Köhler’s second disease” – juvenile deforming metatarsophalangeal Osteochondritis. English translation in Amer. J. Roentgenol., 1923, 10,705-10. Also known as “Freiberg’s infraction” or “Freiberg–Köhler disease”.
GMN 4387 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5941
1925 RUNTING, Ernest George Virgo (1861 – 1954)
Practical chiropody.
"The book reached its eighth edition in 1952, and there were seven reprints; a revised, ninth edition was published in 1956, after Runting's death, and there were several American editions as well as one in Spanish. T…
GMN 9587 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11774
1927 MORTON, Dudley Joy (1884 – 1960)
Metatarsus atavicus: The identification of a distinct type of foot disorder.
"Morton's toe," the condition of having a first metatarsal which is short in relation to the second metatarsal. It is a type of brachymetatarsia. See also Morton, The human foot: Its evolutionary development, physiolo…
GMN 13996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16300
1938 POWELL, Charles Austin (1887 – 1950)
Bound feet.
The author was assistant superintendent of Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals in Boston and Assistant Professor of Tropical Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine. His book is part travelogue and part memoir o…
GMN 13328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15595
1958 DEBAKEY, Michael Ellis (1908 – 2008); WHAYNE, Tom French (1905 – )
Cold injury, ground type.
Summary of what was learned about frostbite and trenchfoot encountered by military personel in World War II. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 12561 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14800
1965 DAGNALL, John Colin (1927 – )
The history of chiropodial literature.
GMN 9582 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11769
1966 VALENTIN, Bruno (1885 – 1969)
Geschichte der Fusspflege: Pedicurie, Chiropodie, Podologie.
GMN 10501 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12694
