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The Health of Barking
Foot Clinic.
people get the right shoes instead
of the wrong ones, we should have
much less chiropody to do. I know
the footwear people only sell what
customers demand, but this would not
be an excuse for a pharmacist to sell
poison, and believe me a lot of shoes
which are sold are poison to the feet.
"With regard to the Skin Clinic, I want to make it clear that although we have
a skin clinic there are very few cases which are seen which can be stated to be
suffering from diseases of the skin, because the skin is an organ of the body, and
when it suffers, other organs of the body suffer also. It is very convenient to
classify all these things together, but the classification belongs to olden days when
things were grouped together not according to their causes, but by their effects.

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