The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-19
Chiropody Nothing Less
 Than c Fine Art Nowadays  Branch of Surgery-Brmingham Fortunate In Having Thoroughly Equipped and Up-To-Date Facilities In This Line-Every Appliance For Making Ones
 Understanding Comfortable
Ry DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

makes the feet ache than the mere wearing of tight shoes.
 Chiropody has assumed phase in this advanced day and time which is akin to art and in the larger cities where every device for making one com fortable from head to foot is arranged in the most luxurious and elegant man. ner, the important subject of caring for the feet has not been neglected and it is a pleasure to chronicle the fact that in our own city there is as well establish ed and thoroughly up-to- date an establishment for this sort of thing as one can find anywhere.
 'Perhays three out of every five women have ingrowing nails" said Dr. Martin Braun, when I called on him at his office in the Brown-MarxSb build ing, and it Is simply because they bay so little attention to them. In some cases the difficulty is slight and by simply cutting or filing the nail prop erly the evil can soon be rectified. The big nail is usually the one affected and some of my patients come to me with the nail grown down so deeply into the
 
 under side"
 What excruciating agony they must suffer-" said I.
 "It seems almost incredible that anyone would bear the pain and inconvenience that this must give them for the length of time for the nail to grow into the flesh to this depth. Sometimes I think we are a very patient people. that we bear pains both physical and mental stoically. But if we would only set to work at once we might be relieved im- mediately and soon effect cure," he re- piled.
 T suppose you have many interesting patients?" I asked.
 People are just beginning to under stand the relief that a surgeon chiropo- dist can give them,' said he. 'One of my patients asked me if she could really be cured of ingrowing nails with which she had suffered for a long time. She had been trimming her own nails for 20 years and they had become more ingrown and painful all the time. At first she had split the corners with a penknife and had torn the sides out, which, of course, was the worst thing she could do. She cut her nails very short, leaving the toe unprotected in every way; she did not realize that the nails were placed on the end of the toe to protect the nerves
 
 here as on the ends of the fingers. The nails of the toe do not grow as fast as those on the fingers and need not be trimmed so frequently. It is not wise plan to trim them so close as to de- stroy the spQngy substance below the nail, as this is special guard to pre- vent them from growing into the flesh" i've heard of the most horrible suf- fering being caused from ingrowing nalls," I remarked casually. "Can they ever be really cured?'
 ''This particular patient that speak of" said Dr. Braun, ''was very anxious to know the same thing, and when she asked that question her nail was in the most terrible shape and condition. While I assured her that this was pos sible, also explained that it would take some time.
 "This is one of the hardest ideas with which the chiropodist has to contend. A patient will come to him with an fngrow- ing nail, or a bunion, with which he has suffered for years, and expects In one treatment or at most, two or three, that the trouble will be cured This patient had endured excruciating pain and suffer- ing for almost 20 years from an ingrow- ing nail, and 1t took one year to bring 1t back to it's normal condition and give her a sound nail."
 q have absolutely the latest methods in chiropody." said Dr. Braun in con- cIusion, land the old. painful, practices which used to be in vogue are not heard of in this up-to-date age. where every thing that is known to science and sur gerry is applied in it's, most effective form"