A bunion would produce insanity as perceptible as that produced by congestion of the brain, were it not that mortal mind calls the bunion an unconscious portion of the body.
And so I've just been over to Geoffrey's, to know if he wanted hisbunion altered or made bigger in the new pair I'm making.
The etiology and preventive treatment of a bunion has always seemed to me to bear a closer relation to a flat foot than to anything else.
The pull upon the flexor longus hallucis which runs along the inside border of the foot, gives rise to the bunion by pulling the big toe outward--in the direction of least resistance.
There is true gout, and it is probably almost as frequent with us as it is in England, but many of the so-called cases are really flatfoot associated with development of the bunion that so commonly occurs as the arch yields.
The mechanism of the formation of the bunion in many cases seems to be, that the large toe, instead of lying straight along the inner edge of the foot, is pushed or pulled toward the other toes.
If the irritation is continued, the proximal end of the first phalanx may enlarge, though usually this is preceded by a series of attacks of more or less acute inflammation of the bursa, when the bunion is said to "become sensitive.
If the bunionis intractable, you may need a "post" in the boot between the great and the second toe.
When once a bunion has developed, it is no good talking about its prevention.
The cure of thebunion consists of removing the pressure from the joint.
On his bunion foot, crippling him," resumed the detective, reassured.
A lopeared buckskin mule with a hanging lower lip and a chronic tail-switching, that shacked along hour after hour and saved Casey's legs and, more particularly, a bunion that had developed in the past year.
I never saw the crystal, they never showed it to anyone; but Jim Bunion told me that night that it was about the size that the thick end of a hen's egg would be if it were round.
I told him what I had noticed about Jim Bunion and Adam Bailey, and he agreed with me that Bill Sloggs was the man, though as to how he had come by that gambit or that variation of Stavlokratz's own opening he had no theory.
Jim Bunion leaning over the table with his breath in my face nodded his head several times and was silent.
Well, Jim Bunion leaned forward then, even further across the table, and swore he had seen the man from whom Bill had bought the crystal and that he was one to whom anything was possible.
Jim Bunion had leant back in his own chair quietly smiling at my questions but when I mentioned silly people he leaned forward again, and thrust his face close to mine and asked me several times if I called Bill Snyth silly.
It seemed that these three sailors thought a great deal of Bill Snyth and it made Jim Bunion angry to hear anything said against him.
The Probability official then might obtain, let us assume, one corn from each State and a reliable bunion to represent each Territory.
When we admitted a new State, our friend could weld on a new corn; or if the Mormons succeeded in procuring the admission of their Territory as a State, we could plough up the Utah bunionand plant a corn, so as to preserve the proprieties.
I (in my wicked way) have sent Hicks almost raving mad, by praising Bunion to him in confidence; and you can drive Bunion out of the room by a few judicious panegyrics of Hicks.
It is worth twopence to see Miss Bunion and Poseidon Hicks, the great poet, conversing with one another, and to talk of one to the other afterwards.
As Canaillard and the Poetess came up, The Mulligan, in the height of his enthusiasm, lunged out a kick which sent Miss Bunion howling; and concluded with a tremendous Hurroo!
In the general relaxation Dolly Beatty slipped off her tightest shoe, one bunion and four corns clamoring loudly for room.
When a bunion is forming it may be stopped by poulticing and carefully opening it with a lancet.
A bunion is a swelling on the ball of the great toe, and is the result of pressure and irritation by friction.
Bunion is a swelling of the bursa, or cushion, at the first joint of the great toe where it joins the foot.
She said there wasn't no such thing as pain, and the bunion made it its first business to do a little denyin' on its own account.
She said she might have been able to convince her mind that there wasn't no bunion on her foot, but she couldn't convince her foot.
