Front matter
Reading edition
BY
ALFRED JOSEPH
Senior Professor of Podiatry, The First Institute of Podiatry; Ex-President, Nat’l. Ass’n. Chiropodists; Editor, Pedic Items.
E. K. BURNETT
Professor of Clinical Podiatry, The First Institute of Podiatry; Vice-President, Nat’l. Ass’n. Chiropodists; Editor, The Podiatrist.
REUBEN H. GROSS
Professor of Didactic Podiatry and Registrar, The First Institute of Podiatry; Associate Editor, Pedic Items.
EDITED BY
MAURICE J. LEWI, M.D.
President, The First Institute of Podiatry; Ex-Secretary, N. Y. State Board of Medical Examiners; formerly Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Albany Law School; Ex-President, Albany Co. Medical Society; formerly Instructor, Albany Medical College; Member, American Medical Association; Member, N. Y. State Medical Society; Member N. Y. Co. Medical Society, etc.
PUBLISHED BY THE FIRST INSTITUTE OF PODIATRY 213-215-217 WEST 125TH STREET NEW YORK
Copyright, Maurice J. Lewi, 1918 The William G. Hewitt Press Brooklyn, N. Y.
TO THE MEMORY OF George Erff and Elliott W. Johnson, builders of the foundation upon which the edifice of modern podiatry is reared, this book is reverently and appreciatively dedicated.
The beauties of contour of the human foot, coupled with its strength to perform the functions for which it was created, caused the ancient Greeks to glorify it in song and in art. Medically and surgically it has always been a negligible factor in the world of science, notwithstanding the burdens which it is made to bear and in spite of the interference with locomotion and with general health which this non-care has occasioned for all centuries since creation. Our propaganda recognizes the importance of this part of the anatomy and is causing the race to realize the need for foot care in health and for scientific foot treatment in disease.