Trusting that those readers who are not able to avail themselves of the services of a professional chiropodist, will here find a sufficient guide for the management of ordinary difficulties of this kind, attention will next be called to a re-statement of some of the ideas and points of argument previously advanced in this treatise. FOOTNOTES: [8] The _bursa mucosa_ is a synovial membrane lining the joint, and secreting a lubricating fluid, like similar membranes in other joints. [9] It will, perhaps, not be amiss here to give a cure for _chilblains_, taken from a recent work upon the “Movement Cure,” by Dr. George H. Taylor. It consists in raising the foot, with the shoe upon it, and giving it thirty or forty smart blows upon the sole with a heavy stick of convenient length to be handled. The shock upon the foot dissipates the congestion of blood in the capillary vessels under the skin, which causes the intense itching and smart. It is so simple that every one afflicted ought to try it, and is asserted to be, with few repetitions, a permanent cure. CHAPTER IX. Recapitulation—Lasts for Individual Feet—Possibility of all Fee being Well Fitted in their Clothing—Ease and Grace of Movement—A Last Word for Children. We have heretofore endeavoured to show what is the true, normal shape of the healthy foot, as recognized by science, art, and common sense; that in it the toes lie directly forward of the metatarsal bones, in the same line, having plenty of room for all of them to come to the ground, or the surface on which they tread; that there is no occasion for grown-in-nails, big joints, or corns until after the adoption of false habits in the manner of the foot’s clothing; that the elevation of the instep is made by a well-formed and distinct arch, the breaking-down of which, as manifested in the flattened instep and elongated heel, is unnatural; that all the various deformities, weaknesses, and ailments pointed out and remarked upon are so many vitiations or perversions of the foot’s condition. It has been made plain, also, _that all our present habits and ways of dressing the feet tend, more or less directly and strongly, toward this depravity and distortion_. We have seen that the common sole, by being curved where it should be straight—on its inside line—inevitably draws the great toe to one side, and all the toes too closely together, pushing out the joint, creating corns between and outside the toes, and lameness or bunion at the joint itself; that this tendency is _increased_ by _straight_ and _narrow-toed_ soles; that it is made still worse by _high heels_, which pitch the foot far forward; while the practice of wearing boots and shoes that are too short makes yet another addition toward the production of the whole bad result.