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instances less cheerful than those whose locomotion has not been curtailed, and is not attended with more or less suffering throughout life. It would he interesting to know what is the true effect of this condition in determining disease in its subject in childhood and adult life: hut of this as yet I have not been informed, and I see no reference to it in the Missionary Hospital reports.
We have now, in the collection of the Mutter Museum, the dried foot already referred to; a cast of a half-dwarfed foot remarkable for the extent of the underlapping of the toes and pointing of the anterior part of the foot, the heel-to-toe measurement being six and three-quarter inches; a model of a four and a half inch foot; a second miniature model of a bandaged foot with shoe and ankle-cover; and four casts of feet taken at the ages of six, thirteen and fourteen years, and in adult life, the first three being four and a half inches long, and the last four and three-quarter inches. These give a fair representation of the whole process of binding, and of its effect upon the form and size of the foot. For these we are much indebted to Drs. John G. Kerr and Flemming Carrow, of the Canton Hospital.
Note. — Since the above paper was put in type, I have seen a lad}' from Is ingpo, who was engaged in teaching a mission school, in which there were twenty-six girls, all having bound feet. She says that the custom is, in one respect, quite different in Xingpo from what it is in Canton and Swatow, and that in consequence the feet are made much smaller. She has never seen an unbound foot, although anxious to do so, but could never persuade one of the girls or women to remove the bandage. When dressed, and with
