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charge the cleansing may be repeated night and morning, followed by the 
chloride of zinc, but in most cases once a day will be sufficiently often. 
If the ulcerated or inflamed skin does not put on a healthy appearance in 
a few days, the lotion may be increased in strength, using forty, fifty, or 
sixty grains to the pint, as required ; but the remedy will be found to be 
almost a specific, except for the grapy form, if properly proportioned in 
strength. When the fungoid growths are very extensive, nothing but 
their removal, either by the knife or by the actual or potential cautery, 
will sutiice. The least painful plan is to slice them off to a level with 
the skin and then just touch the bleeding surface with a hot iron, which 
will have the double good effect of stopping the bleeding and inducing a 
healthy action. The glycerine may then be applied, and next day the 
leg may be treated in the same way as for ordinary grease described above. 
When the disease is of long standing, local applications may cure it for a 
time, but either it will return, or there will be some other organ attacked, 
unless the unhealthy state of the blood is attended to. It must be 
remembered that during the existence of grease this vital fluid is called 
upon to supply the materials for the secretion which is constantly going 
on. Now if on the cessation of the demand for them the blood still 
goes on obtaining its supplies from the digestive organs, it becomes over- 
Joaded, a state of plethora is established, which Nature attempts to relieve 
in some one or other of her established modes by setting up disease. 
To avoid such a result arsenic may be given internally, for this medicine 
has a special power in counteracting this tendency. How it acts has 
never yet been made out, but that it does exert such a power is thoroughly 
ascertained, and if the doses are not too large it is unattended by any 
injurious effect. Indeed for a time it seems to act as a tonic. The arsenic 
should be given in solution and with the food, so as to procure its absorp- 
tion into the blood without weakening the stomach. A wine-glassful of 
liquor arsenicalis (14 oz.) should be poured over the corn twice a day, 
and continued for a couple of months, when it may be discontinued with 
a fair hope of its having had the desired effect. Should the skin, however, 
look inflamed, a second course of it may be given, and it will be found 
that if it is given with the corn it will not be followed by any injurious 
consequences, 
WARTS. 
Warts are, generaily, only to be considered as eyesores ; for, unless 
they appear on the penis, they are not injurious to health ; nor do they 
interfere with work unless they happen to appear on the shoulders 
beneath the collar in a harness horse, which is very rare indeed. They 
are, doubtless, very unsightly, and, for this reason, it is often desired to 
remove them, which may be done by first picking off the rough outer 
surface, so as to make them bleed, and then rubbing in, with a stiff brush, 
some yellow orpiment, wetted with a little water. This will cause con- 
siderable inflammation, and in a few days the wart will drop off, leaving 
a healthy sore, which soon heals. Sometimes the whole wart does not 
come away on the first application, in which case a second must be made. 
When the glans penis is completely covered with warts, the best plan is 
to amputate it, as it requires the greatest caution and tact to remove them 
by arsenic or any other caustic without destroying, also, as much of the 
penis as is taken away by the knife. 
