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Care of the feet as we understand it today (podiatry) was first described by Laurance Laforest who wrote "L'Art de Soigner les Pieds" (1781). He was the podiatrist to Louis XVI., but after the Revolution, changed his occupation to grocer. History does not reveal why the change in career, but I am sure his customers would be relieved to know he washed his hands regularly.

https://archive.org/details/lartdesoignerles00lafo

Specialist foot care was part of the new order after the Revolution and Laforest's work eventually plagiarised by an English corn cutter called David Low. To avoid being found out he translated the original text into English and retitled it
Chiropodologia, Or, a Scientific Enquiry Into the Causes of Corns, Warts, Onions, and Other Painful or Offensive Cutaneous Excrescences: Confirmed by the Practice and Experience of D. Low. . Hence the name chiropodist.

http://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/chiropodologia/

A decade or so later Lowe works was again plagiarised by North Americans.

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