An Old Physician on Sassafras Tea 
On page 144 some one comes at you 
with a question that very nearly floors 
you. That is (lie question of some one. 
some lady. T presume, who wants you to 
tell what virtue there is in sassafras tea 
as a reducer of an excess of flesh. I pre¬ 
sume fat is meant, as it is uniformly the 
fat that is excessive. Will you, there¬ 
fore, accept the volunteer sendee of on 
old physician and drinker of sassafran 
tea to help you out in this important 
case? Let me say first that the idea that 
sassafras tea would have the slightest 
tendency toward reducing a person’s 
weight is pure myth and, like a thousand 
other notions that the practice of medicine 
is loaded down with, has no truth in it 
whatever. Sassafras is not a medicine 
in any sense, nor is it poison or harmful. 
It is true that it does contain au oil that 
is extensively used in liniments for ex¬ 
ternal use. 
I was raised on a farm, and am now <S‘J 
years old. and have used sassafras tea 
more or less all my life. My age shows 
that it certainly has not made any serious 
iaroads on my health. There is one way, 
I think, that sassafras tea would be very 
Useful to some people if properly used. 
That is. if certain persona who use tea 
or coffee to excess would drink this tea 
instead of these objectionable drinks, 
they would find it much easier to quit, the 
objectionable drinks, simply by having a 
pleasant tasting substitute. In olden 
times there was a certain myth very 
common among farmers, that in the Spring 
the blood was impure, and that sassafras 
tea was a certain remedy for that con¬ 
dition : but undoubtedly its effect was 
like the effects of a thousand other 
things—altogether on the imagination. 
The imagination, however, in many in¬ 
stances is a useful partner of the phy¬ 
sician in treating many cases of real or 
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Killing a Wart 
Can you give me a safe and simple 
remedy for removing warts? I have a 
large seed wart on the finger of my left 
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and I am constantly hitting it, causing 
it to be very painful i.t times. Lust, but 
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applied castor oil, hut it made the hair 
around the wart grow, making my hand 
still more disfigured. All of these treat¬ 
ments have failed. m. m. 
Yes, indeed, we know a lot of simple, 
safe and sure remedies for warts. The 
only trouble with ;<uy of them is that 
they frequently fail to remove the par¬ 
ticular wart that we most want to get 
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other wart, but they balk on the impor¬ 
tant job that we >et them at. Warts 
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tion of cold-pressed castor oil is a stand¬ 
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fully used in removing warts, hut we hes¬ 
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remember that you are handling a strong 
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the acid. This should remove the wart 
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