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and then just touch the bleeding surface with a hot iron, which 

 will have the double good effect of stopping the bleeding and in- 

 ducing 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 

 overloaded, 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 ten- 

 dency. 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 as a tonic. The arsenic should be given in 

 solution and with the food, so as to procure its absorption into the 

 blood without weakening the stomach. A wine-glassful of liquor 

 arsenicalis (1 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, generally, 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 considerable inflam- 

 mation, and in a few days the wart will drop off, leaving a healthy 

 Bore, 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 treatment for scratches will be found to be carbolic acid one part, 

 cold water forty parts, applied from one to three times daily. EDITOR. 



