Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed plague of bunions in medieval Britain
Journal Reference: Jenna M. Dittmar, Piers D. Mitchell, Craig Cessford, Sarah A. Inskip, John E. Robb. Fancy shoes and painful feet: Hallux valgus and fracture risk in medieval Cambridge, England. International Journal of Paleopathology, 2021; DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.04.012 Researchers investigating remains in Cambridge, UK, found that those buried in the town centre, particularly in plots for … Read more