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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

L’art de soigner les pieds, contenant: Un traité sur les cors, verrues, durillons, oignons, engelures, les accidens de ongles & leur difformité.

Publication Details

Paris: L'Auteur, 1781 CE.

Laforest was the first to describe and illustrate the condition of hallux valgus. The second edition of this work (1782), "Augmentée d’un chapitre sur la manière de soigner les pieds des soldats en garnison & dans les mouvemens, & de deux planches pour l’intelligence de cet ouvrage, " was the first illustrated book on podiatry. Translated into English by D. Low, who falsely claimed authorship, and published as Chiropodologia, or a scientific enqury into the causes of corns, warts, onions, and other painful or offensive cutaneous excrescences (1785). Digital facsimile of the 1781 edition from Google Books at this link; of the 1782 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1785 translation from Google Books at this link.

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#9586
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/11773
Author Bio Linkworldcat.org.identities ↗
External URLlart-de-soigner-les-pieds-contenant-un-trait-sur-les-cors-verrues-durillons-oignons-engelures-les-accidens-de-ongles-leur-difformit

Geographic Context

Publication place: Paris