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Sure Cures for Warts 
Make a moist paste of strong vinegar 
ami good saleratus. Put it on warts 
while it effervesces. Apply three times 
daily. Wart will soon disappear. 
Thornhurst, Pa. MRS. M. E. R. 
I know of a sure cure for warts, only 
one will have to wait till Summer. It is 
the milk from the tall milkweed, applied 
three or four times daily. I was cured 
in about one week of two very large 
warts on my right hand. I had had them 
out out and also had used iodine and 
various other remedies, which failed to 
effect a cure. The milkweed cure I used 
the Summer of 11 >20, and have not been 
troubled with them since. It is a sure 
cure and docs not leave a soar. 
It is rather late in (he season for chil¬ 
blains. but as I also know a cure for 
them will send it along. It is 12 parts 
crude or olive oil. 12 parts of lime water, 
one part tincture of opium. Apply night 
and morning or oftener if necessary. 
G. II. B. 
I had several warts, of which two were 
in a very bad place, just ou the inside of 
the thumb, where the pressure for a pitch- 
fork handle or handle of any other imple¬ 
ment would come. I tried various meth¬ 
ods of removal, including the acetic acid 
method mentioned, and without perma¬ 
nent results. I had to trim them down 
every little while, which was causing 
them to grow larger all the time. At last 
I tried a method which is said to be in¬ 
fallible, and which worked in my case. 
Moisten the wart with strong nitric acid, 
using preferably » glass rod. This acid 
is very destructive to organic matter and 
should not touch -the healthy flesh around 
the wart. Repeat this perhaps six times 
at intervals of a day or so, and the wart 
will he killed to the roots and will lift 
out. In my case the hole left was clear 
to the flesh underneath, and a very slight 
scar was left, which would not. be noticed 
but that this was a large wart. The 
smaller ones, which had not been stimu¬ 
lated to growth by constant pressure, 
came off without leaving n trace. The 
warts should not bo disturbed until one 
can notice the separation between the 
healthy tissue and the dead wart, when 
they can be taken off without any bleed¬ 
ing. If removed too soon before abso¬ 
lutely killed to the roots they will grow 
aguiu. A. H. DE GRAFF. 
I killed my last warts, and one was a 
very troublesome one on the inside of my 
thumb, by rubbing them with green elder 
leaves, well twisted so as to get the juice; 
easy to try. A. E. R. 
On page 287 M. M. asks for a remedy 
to kill a wart on the finger. Mix one 
part turpentine and two parts castor oil. 
and rub well into the wart. This is a 
remedy with no harm and no charm, blit, 
like anything else, to be of any value it 
requires some effort on the part of the 
one using it. Soak the wart in warm 
water until it is soft, then mb the oil 
and turpentine in well, no need to smear 
it all over the finger, and the wart will 
disappear without a scar. G. L. W. 
Cold Water, X. Y. 
A cure for seed warts is one teaspoon 
of copperas, one tablespoon water. Stir 
well and ijpply often with a small stick. 
You must not pick it. My husband had 
a bad seed wart between his fingers, and 
I removed it with copperas, mrs. f. f. 
MunnsviUc, X. Y. 
On page 287 M. M. wants some wart 
remedies. Mine will not fail, no matter 
how big or old the wart is. Every morn¬ 
ing. when first out of bed. just put some 
of your own fasting spittle, before you 
wash your teeth, or eat, but do not for¬ 
get : do it every morning. The wart dis¬ 
appears in a short rime. B. f. 
Tf M. M. will take a small bottle, such 
as is used for pills, perhaps, and put say 
a teaspoon or more of common baking 
soda in it and fill bottle with water and 
apply, after shaking contents of bottle 
tjei onghly, to warts every time one 
thinks of it, tho troublesome tilings will 
entirely disappear. I am not sure about 
the quantity used, but it is n..t necessary 
to be particular, as rlio soda would do 
no harm if stronger than I have said. I 
remember my father taking a large wart 
from a horse's leg with this simple rem¬ 
edy years ago, ami have often heard him 
tell people to use it. I do not know just 
how long it will take: should think it 
would depend on the size of the wart. 
Wet wart with solution very often and 
allow it to dry on. H. E. G. 
Referring to letter of M. M.. on page 
287. relating to removal of warts, I suf¬ 
fered from a wart on my forehead, which 
was very annoying when I wore my hat. 
One evening my wife tied a silk thread 
around the wart, just as I was about to 
retire lo bed. That is the last I remem¬ 
ber of it. Possibly about a month later a 
friend asked me how I had removed the 
wart, and I told him to ask my wife, as 
with the cares of harvest time I had not 
given n thought to the wart, until remind¬ 
ed of its absence. Since then I “grew" 
an annoying wart just below my left eye. 
Snmehow or other 1 would unconsciously 
ruh my finger over it frequently, which T 
fear stimulated its growth. Finally a 
neighbor advised me to try tincture of 
iodine. I dipped a match stick fhto iodine 
and applied n tiny drop of it to the sur¬ 
face of the wart, and repeated this pro¬ 
cedure at morning and evening for about 
a week. Presently wart disappeared ab¬ 
solutely and entirely, and today there is 
no sign, trace or remainder visible. 
New Jersey. C. R. 
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