Footnail

The soles are more horny and discoloured than the palms, and the foot[-]nails, from walking bare, are often deficient or distorted.

The well-filled understructure of the skin, the delicacy of the skin, the foot of a person not accustomed to hard labour or to wear heavy shoes—the footnails being trimmed, clean, and in good condition, as well as those of the hand—led me to that conclusion.

Sajjani, embellished with many gem[-]like good qualities, who ever saw her face (reflected) in the mirror of the footnails of her lord, was the wife of that ocean of virtues.

Dysentery, tetanus, severe ulcers, sunstroke, inflammation under footnails by parasites, are among the prevalent affections.

The elephants that are of good height, capable of enduring a large amount of fatigue, possessed of twenty or eighteen footnails, and exude a sort of cool and transparent exudation from their temples even in winter, and whose right tusks are more elevated than the left ones which invariably attain to a large size, with large and well-developed flapping ears marked by a net of little, dotlike marks, and whose colours resemble that of a pregnant rain cloud, should only be kept in the royal stud, whereas those that are short-statured and constantly require the use of the goading mace should be rejected.

Kakuk mentions that no animals other than the grasshopper (çekirge) and the caterpillar (tırtıl), and no “organs” other than the eyelash (kirpik), hair (saç) and the fingernail or footnail (tırnak) are in the list of 1886.

Symptoms of acute selenium poisoning are irritation of the mucous membranes (particularly with selenium hydride), gastrointestinal disorders, and respiratory tract inflammation and, after weeks, potentially hair loss and finger- and footnail injury.