A well-known resident of Shanghai has within the past few days made! his appearance in public after a spell in hospital whither he was -sent to have a toe amputated, and the circumstances of the odso are of a nature to serve as a warning to others. The gentleman in question was in the habit of employing a Chinese chiropodist to attend to his toe nails, and apparently a consequence of one of his visits poisoning set in, with ths result that the toe! had to be amputated. It is quite a common thing in Shanghai for people to be attended in exactly the same way as this"gentleman was done, and as a rule the Chinese chiropodists do their work well and skilfully, but apparently there is a danger of infection through the instruments used. And bearing in mind the case just mentioned, it would be no more than an ordinary precaution to see that the instruments in question are disinfected. We believe that imversion for a comparatively short period in boiling water is sufficient, and in the light of what has happened something of the kind ought certain 2 to be called for by every al concerned.
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