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able for the ligature ; and it is generally bell in fuch cafes, 

 either to have recoiirfe to llimulating applications, efcha- 

 rotics, or cutting inllrviments. 



Rubbing warts with foapy liniments, or lotions contain- 

 ing the muriate of ammonia, vinegar, the muriate of foda, 

 the liquor ammonia, &c. frequently brings about their gra- 

 dual removal by abforption. The iUmulating properties of 

 the juice of a variety, of herbs alfo have the fame effeft, as 

 well as the fchool-boy's praftice of fmearing them continu- 

 ally with ink. 



A more certain method, however, is to attack warts 

 with efcharotic and caullic applications, fuch as the tinfture 

 of cantharides, the plafter of cantharides, the pulv. cantha- 

 ridum et zruginis seris, the nitrate of filver, muriate of an- 

 timony, fulphate of copper, concentrated mineral acids, 

 lie. In the ufe of the itronger canities, it is necefTary to 

 proteft the furrounding llvin from their aftion by covering 

 it with adhelive plaller. The furgeon muft alfo be cau- 

 tious in their ufe, left; he excite very painful and trouble- 

 fome fores. 



When warts are very large, we conceive it beft to cut 

 them away, and apply the lunar cauftic to the furface from 

 which they grew. In doing this operation, let the furgeon 

 always remember, that removing only a part of the wart 

 is worfe than doing nothing ; fince the portion left behind 

 will afterwards grow with increafed rapidity. Hence, when 

 warts have been removed either with ligatures, or cutting 

 inilruments, it is generally prudent to touch the fituation of 

 their roots with fome atlive caullic. 



Warts, in Animah, the horny excrefcences which are 

 formed in the (l<in of different parts of them, and which are 

 caufed by any thing that hardens it in a local manner. In 

 horfes, they are faid to be of the fame nature as thofe ex- 

 crefcences that take place on their legs and pafterns, and 

 to be more or lefs hurtful, as they may be fituated nearer 

 to, or at a greater diftance from, the larger (inews of the 

 parts. See ^a/-TML.s, Scratches, &c. 



In regard to the removal of them, they are capable of 

 being deftroyed by touching them occahonally with any 

 powerful caullic fubftance, by the ufe of ligatures, and by 

 being cut off, in fome cafes, when fuperficially fituated. In 

 the firft of thefe intentions, three ounces of the powder of 

 copperas are direfted to be put into a crucible, and placed on 

 a charcoal fire, keeping the powder ftirred from time to time, 

 but being careful to avoid the Ream ; continuing a pretty 

 llrong heat until the powder grows fomewliat reddilli ; wlien 

 it is to be taken off the fire, and after it is cooled broken, 

 the parts being beaten and reduced into a very fine powder ; 

 fome of which is then to be incorporated with fome foft unc- 

 tuous material, and an ointment formed ; wliich is to be ap- 

 plied cold to the warts, anointing them lightly witli it every 

 day, when they will foon, it is faid, fall off in the manner of 

 the kernels of nuts, without caufing any fort of fwelling or 

 uneafinefs. Care is, however, to be taken not to touch any 

 thing but the warts. And if the animal be a horfc, he flioiild 

 not be wrought or rode during tlie application of the oint- 

 ment or caullic. 



The other modes of cure are equally eafy and effciflual in 

 many cafes of warts in animals. 



Wart, in the Maneg:, is an excrcfcence, or fuperfluity 

 of fpongy flefli, that riles in the hinder pallerns of coach- 

 horfes, almoll as big as a walnut. It fuppuratcs, and voids 

 red ftinking matter, and does not heal but for a time, for it 

 returns again. See the preceding article. 



WAHT-lVort, in Botany, a name fometimcs given to two 

 very different plants. See Nii'vlk- IVorl and Si'UR(;e. . 



Waut -IVoii, in Gardening, the common name of a thick- 



leaved plant, which is ftudded with hard warty knobs or 

 knots. See Eui'horhia. 



WART A, in Geography, a town of the duchy of War- 

 faw, on a river of the fame name, which runs into the Oder ; 



10 miles N.N.E. of Siradia Alfo, a town of SileCa, in the 



principality of Neiffe ; 5 miles E. of Neiffe Alfo, a river 



which rifes near Cracow, and runs into the Oder at Cuf- 

 trin. 



AVARTAU, a town of Switzerland, in the county of 

 Sargans ; 20 miles N. of Sargans. 



WARTBERG, a town of Auftria ; 7 miles N.E. of 

 Steyregg. 



WARTBURG, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of 

 Soleure ; 16 miles N.E. of Soleure. 



Wartburg, or IVartenburg, a caftle of Saxony, in which 

 Martin Luther was imprifoned eleven months, near Eife- 

 nach. 



WARTENBERG, a town of Bavaria, on the Strong ; 

 4 miles S.E. of Mofi)urg. — Alfo, a town of Silefia,and capital 

 of a lordlhip of the fame name, containing fcarcely above 

 100 houfes. It was formerly much larger ; but in the year 

 1444, 580 houfes Vvere deftroyed by fire. The circle was 

 afterwards contrafted, and the town furrounded with a ram- 

 part, wall, and moat. The Roman Catholics, the Lutherans, 

 and tlie Calvinifts, have each a place of worfliip ; 14 miles 



N.E. of Oels. N. lat. 51° 18'. E. long. 17^45' Alfo, a 



town of Bohemia, in the circle of Boleflaw ; 4 miles N.E. 

 of Nime.s. — Alfo, a lordftiip of Silefia, furrounded by the 

 principality of Ocls, to which it once belonged, but was 

 erefted into a particular lordffiip in the year 1490 ; it has 

 frequently changed proprietors, and lately belonged to the 

 duke of Courland. 



WARTENBURG, a town of Auftria; i mile N.W. 

 of Voglabruck. — Alfo, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 

 Ermeland ; 63 miles S. of Koniglherg. N. lat. 53° 43'. 

 E. long. 20° 40'. — Alfo, a town of Vermont, in the county 

 of Chittenden, containing 866 inhabitants. — Alfo, a caftle 

 of France, in the department of Mont Toniierre, late in the 

 circle of the Upper Rhine, which gave name to a county, 

 the lands of which were not united togetlier, but lay in de- 

 tached parts. It was made an imperial county in the year 

 1707. The caftle is fituated 6 miles N.E. of Lantern. 



WA RTH, in our Old IVrilen, feems to be the fame with 

 ward-penny, being a cuftomary payment for fome caftle- 

 guard. 



W A RTH A, in Geography, a town of Silefia, in the prin- 

 cipality of Munftcrberg, on the Neiffe ; 6 miles N.E. of 

 Glatz. N. lat. 50° 20'. E. long. 16° 35'. 



WARTHEBERG, a town of Auftria ; 13 miles S.W. 

 of Steyr. 



WARTHENBERG, a town of Silefia, in the princi- 

 pality of Glogau ; 18 miles N.W. of Gros Glogau. N. lat. 

 51^52'. E. long. 15-^45'. 



WARTHENBURG, a town of Saxony ; 6 miles S.E. 

 of Wittenberg. 



WARTON, Joseph, D.D., in Biography, fon of the 

 poetry -profcffor of the fame name at Oxford, and vicar of 

 Bafinglioke, was born in 1722, and entered at the age of 

 fourteen years on the foundation at Winchefter-fchool, and 

 in 1740 at Oriel college, Oxford. After having taken the 

 degree of B.D. he became curate to his father, and in 

 1744 excrcited the fame office at Chelfea. In this year he 

 pubhfhcd a fmall volume of" Odes," and in 1748 he w.is 

 prefented by tlie duke of Bolton to the reftory of Winllidc, 

 and foon after married. In 1 75 1 he accompanied his patron 

 on a tour to the foulh of France, and in 1753 completed his 

 4X2 edition 



