The sun., 1901-08-03
THE TOOLS or CHIROPODY.
A Very Great variety OF Them Besides
the simple Corn Knife and Rasp.

is there really such thing as a corn
razor' Well" said the cutlery man. Il
should say there was. ] guess you never
were troubled with corns much or you
wouldn't ask that question. The corn razor
is as old a. the hills or the next thing to IL
as old as the razor. 1t is really a razor in
miniature, and in these days il is made with
the blade hollow ground and all that, lust
like the modern big razor. though it's less
than half its size. But while in all its
general characteristics il il like its biv
sharp brother, you will notice that the edge
OF the little one instead Of curvnQ slipbt7v
outward from straight line curves slightly
inward. This is TO give il better hold on
the corn and to lessen the danger of ts
slipping. Another point Of difference ia
found at the outward extremity or point
of the blades. Instead Of having a cutoff
square end like the big razor the little one
has the end Of its blade rounded up from
the edge to the blade, and the cutting edge
il continued right along this rollnding
end up to the back. This sharpened rounded
end is used for cutting at places that could
not conveniently be reached with the edge
OF the blade.
almost equally old and familiar to those
who have occasion To Use such implements
IL the corn knife, which has blade of the
same model as the corn razor, but still
smaller, and shutting 1t into "A knife handle
in the usual manner of knife blade. Thus
this blade, having a shoulder on it at the
pivot end like any knife blade, is, when
opened. held in fixed position, while the
blade OF the corn razor, being movable on
its pivot, can he held in any position with
relation to the handle. Some users prefer
one and some the other: il appears to be a
tar of haI
chiropodist. however, Uses tools whose
blades are not pivoted at all, but fixed in
the handles.
A commonplace companion piece for
the razor or knife, is the corn rasp, a very
little file, coarse on one side and finer on
the other. These three articles are things
of common sale the world over, wherever
this country and export them to the West
Indies. England, Germany and France
make them and export them al well
But while these three implements, or,
rather. two OF them. comprise the tools
commonly brought into personal use, the
tools OF the chiropodist are far more nu-
merous. as there are also more chiropodists
than there formerly were, while the busi-
ness Of the chropodists has increased ten
fold in five years. Many people go to the
chiropodist nowadays for comforts sake
and for care and attention that can be be-
slowed more easily and expertly than they
can bestow it themselves; Just as now far
more people than ever go to the manicure;
and the tools and implements required
by the chiropodist in the various branches
and processes Of his work would number
twenty at least, each one especially adapted
To the particular Use TO which il il put,
The tools Of chiropody used by tho pro-
fessional chiropodist were formerly made
here by the surgical instrument maker or
imported from England. We get now from
France complete sets Of chiropodists' tools,
which We sell in sets or singIy"