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should be spread with diachylon-plaster, (to be obtained from any 

 apothecary,) and, when warmed at the fire, is to be nicely adjusted 

 over the corn in such a manner that the hole in its centre will 

 come immediately over the corn, and thus protect it entirely from 

 the direct pressure of the boot and consequently permit the patient 

 to walk with ease. This application will oftentimes not require 

 readjusting for several days, and, if persevered in for a short time, 

 the corn will entirely disappear. If the corn is between the toes, 

 something of the same sort must be contrived for its relief. We 

 suflfered for several months with one of these formations in this 

 situation ; and we must confess that the treatment of it tried our 

 patience and exhausted nearly all our skill before our efforts were 

 crowned with success. We have heard of many empirical and old 

 women's applications for the cure of corns, but do not believe that 

 any one of them ever performed a cure if the primary cause of 

 the deformity was not first removed, — that is, "the tight boot." 

 This being done, any one of them may without difficulty effect a 

 speedy cure. 



The following recipe, picked up we know not where, we have 

 used successfully on several occasions in the cure of corns, and 

 therefore can recommend it with some degree of confidence : — The 

 corn should be pared as close as possible, and the chamois-pad 

 applied as above directed, and the mixture put on with a camels'- 

 hair pencil, every other evening, for a week or ten days ; the pad 

 should then be removed and the foot soaked in hot water, and the 

 corn again pared of all the softened cuticle that will come off 

 without using any great effort or producing pain ; the pad may be 

 again applied and the mixture used as before. This will generally 

 be sufficient to remove the enemy. 



R. — Tincture of iodine 3"i; 



loduret of iron grs. xii; 



Chloride of antimony Si'^'. 



An excellent corn-salve, put up in little tin boxes, may be ob- 

 tained from the great herb depot in Dock Street. It appears to 



