Show death from toe nail some time ago there was published the story of the death of a long island physician from alood poisoning resulting from an in growing toe nail A well known surgeon chiropodist said the other day to the reporter the death of that long island doctor is not the first I 1 have heard of from the same cause the cause of the disease is common and painful and usually directly traceable to narrow toed shoes it causes pain as severe ad a toothache and not infrequently when neglected results in blood poisoning I 1 know of an operation for in growing toe nail in an english hospital where the patient suffered so much pain that they gave him a mixture of ether and chloroform the operation was successful but when it was finished the physicians found that their patient had died from the chloroform new york sun |