Felix Wagner 1863-1913

Felix Wagner was a German-born chiropodist who was an enthusiastic promotor of the profession. He was Vice-President of the National Society. In 1913, in their first annual report  he was mentioned in the following paragraph: “The hearty thanks of the Society are due to Mr E G V Runting and Mr Felix Wagner who have generously contributed a number of standard books appertaining to the treatment of the foot, forming the nucleus of a library…”. The archive still holds items donated by Wagner.

Following Wagners's death in 1913, the 1914 edition of The Chiropodist reported: “To the day of his death, he was enthusiastic and full of optimism regarding our future and his removal at a comparatively early age leaves a blank that it will be difficult to fill.”

Wagner wrote the seminal text A Handbook of Chiropody Giving the Causes and Treatments of Corns published in 1903. It was the first such text to be illustrated with photographs