Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-12
SAY, HAVE YOU GOTH?
WHAT? THE AUTO FOOT
If You Jam Breaks Then Comes
Metatarsalgia; if You Don't,
the Cop.
DR.. E. C. Rice Also Says Women Sim.
ply Refuse to Wear Sen
sible Shoes.
Here it is-"the automobile foot"

Here it is-"the automobile foot"
People who jam on brakes. use the
self-starter (when it will work) and
operate the clutch with the right foot
are presenting a new and serious prob
lem to the pedic science. and full
description of Just what it does to you
was read at the meeting of the Pedic
Society last night by DIR. f. c. Rice
president of that organization.
See what happens when you jam on
the brake:
Great pressure is brought to bear
on the ball of the foot, which causes a
lowering of the third and fourth met
atarsal bones or the breaking down OF
the anterior transversal arch, with It's
accompanying metatarsalgia-
This Is neither threat nor prom
Use. It's just DIR. Rice himself telling
you in simple orthopedic language tnat
when you shove the clutch out you are
likely to get Metatarsalgia. If you
don't shove IL out the traffic cops VIII
get you-so what's the use.
Treatment Suggested.
In speaking of this new weight upon
the world, DR.. Rice said:
The treatment I recommend is to
support the metatarsal bones, advise
operating the automobile with less
speed. as speed calls for strenuous foot
control and foot pressure; when pur-
chasing a car, see that 1t operates cas-
lily, without much foot effort; also rec
ommend' correctly fitting shoe"
DR.. Rice spoke at length of women
and their foot troubles.
1T Is the experience of all chiropo-
dists.' he said, that woman patients
will wear the shoe that is in style re-
gardess of the consequences. Unfor-
tunately the shoemaker does not make
a shoe that would be both proper as to
fitting the foot and appropriate for all
occasions; the So-called anatomical or
orthopedic' shoes make well dressed
woman look like a freak. She knows
Z. and unless it is a question of going
on her hands and knees or putting on
shoe for comfort only, she is for
style every time.
Will Not Cooperate.
Women do not want their feet to be
unnatural. toes distorted. joints en-
iarged and will say. will do anything
to stop it. Believing that she means
what she says. the practitioner first
suggests a change in footwear: imme-
diately she -ebels and says, You might
just as we'll be dead If not in style.
What is the result? Very few chiropo-
dists take any interest In trying to
effect a cure. knowing that the patient
will not and owing to fashion. cannot.
without subjecting herself to ridicule.
cooperate with the chiropodists; alone
he cannot hope to give more than
relief.
when one stops to think of few of
the causes of foot suffering that pre-
vents il from doing its work with ease
and comfort it is surprising that walk
ing Is even possible. The weight they
have to carry and the work that is re-
quired of it, too often is out of pro-
portion to its size. yet under favorable
circumstances. with proper shoes. this
overloaded foot will give good service.
IF shoe is laced or buttoned prop
erly II is made to At very snug about
the instep to keep the foot from slip
ping away from the heel into the mar
row part of the shoe. the toe thereby
giving the ball of the foot and toes
the room provided; II this is done in a
low heel, FIAT sole shoe. it tends to pull
the arches down. The shoe should mt
about the instep and the longitudinal
arch, as a good-ftting corset hts the
body.