Ingrowing Toe-Nail

only two facts on which all are agreed. The first is, that the complaint is caused by the wearing of tight boots; the second, that it is not ingrowing of the toe-nail at all, but overgrowing of the toe-flesh. With reference to the first point, it seems to have struck no one as peculiar that the leaving off tight boots is by no means a cure for the malady. Sublata causa, tollitxir effectus ought to hold good here as elsewhere. And if we say, with greater show ?f reason, that it is simply an outcome of the civilized habit of wearing coverings for the feet of any sort, which prevent the toes from spreading out as we walk, and demand that to give a cure we must walk bare-footed, we might still require proof that savages do not have ingrowing toe-nail. I strongly suspect that they do. As to the second point of agreement, that it is rather overgrowing of the flesh than ingrowing of the nail, we might