The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-08
CURES FOR WARTS AND coRNs.
superstiiious Notions That Prevail In tho
SnnnN Sontl.

The best cure on earth for n wart, "
said Capt Mercer few days ago, lis
ono that an old negro womes told me
about n long time ago"
flows that7"
She told me TO remember some
morning early, when was gathering
beans IN the swamp, and take a bean
leaf and rub the wart Smarly with the
rough side OF the leaf. / was TO rub
tNc wart just as long as ! could stand
It, and in a week from that time, If
hadn't told anybody about il, the wart
would 60 away"
Did you try it1'
Yes, SIR, and that wart went away,
too"
81 never found but one remedy for
a wart' said Mr. Oscar Hall. AN
Did negro woman gave me the recipe
when was a little boy, and it's the
only cure ever found.
"Sho told me to go TO the cornfcld
some evening during the full OF the
moon and find an car Of rcd corn. You
know the cob IS red when the grain is
red ! was toshock and she'll the car
Of corn and then rub the wart with the
cob i was TO look at The moon, not
at the wart or the cob, and rub just as
hard and rs long as ! could stand IT,
II took my eyes away from the moon
1t would spoil the remedy When the
wart became sore and singing / was
10 throw down the cob, and In five
days from that time the wart would
be gone"
"llow did it work.
Inside of five days the wart was
gone. had tried fifty remedies TO get
rld of that wari, and nothing else had
done any good. "
IL never found but one thing that
could do any good for Il wart or corn, 81
said Pairolman w. c. Cooper.
What's that|
"a snail, said the patrolman, sol
emily.
There was an embarrassing silence
for little while, and then the police
man continued:
Here one time | was digging pota-
toes in my garden. My corn kept
hurting until just took off my shoe
and lay down on my back in grassy
place in the shade. The corn kept
hurting and ] was getting desperate
about IT., when ! noticed a snail crawl
ing along near mo. / remembered
what an old negro told me years be
fore. and caught the snail and began
rubbing the corn with IL. broke tine
shell and continued the rubbing until
the pain stopped | have never been
troubled with that corn from that day
TO this. and before that it had troubled
mo night and day for months. Its the
only cure for corns, and it's q mighty
good remedy for warts, too.
There's only ono cure for wart
said Patrolman Frank Christophinc.
what isit"
"a darby told me about it, lie said
to remember some night when tho
moon was full and to 60 directly west.
Then | was 10 stop, looking at tho
moon all the time. and stoop down
and pick mp whatever my hand hap
pcucd 10 touch first ! remembered d
one night when l was going out Mari
eta street ] stopped down, looklngul
at the moon all the time, and picked
up a small stone. Then ! rubbed tho
wart until it began to bleed and then
threw down the stone. All the time
was rubbing the wart was still look
ing at tho moon. IN less than q Wccl
from that night the wGrt was gone
That was a regular old seed wart ono
! had been trying TO get rid Of it for .
long time. That's tho only remedy
ever found for warts
cone time In Amcricus said Sta
ton House Keeper John Joiner, u saw
"A strange wart cure tried.
How did il workY
at cured the warts. My son Char
ley was little fellow then, and both
hands wcro covered with warts. Ono
day he was standing in front Of lhC
door when darky noticed the warts
and called Charley aside DO YOU
want q curc| asked the darby. Yes,
said Charley. The negro gave hlm a
chew of plug tobacco. Take that,
said be, and run down the street just
as fast as YOU can go until you meet a
negro Hand him the Chow Of tobacco.
Ii he chcws it you needn't think any
thing about ID. The wart will De gone
inside q week. II the darby Won't
take it,, or won't chew 10, you must
try it again. Take q new chew Of to-
bacco and run down the street until
YOU meet negro. Don't tell anybody
what I've told You until the warts are
gone Ny boy tried IT, l saw him
rum down the Street and suddenly stop
and hand something - q negro. /
asked him about it, but lac SAID lie
couldn't tell. Five or SIX days after
ward ] happened To- notice that thc
warts were all como from his hands.
and called his attention To IT, i bad
nearly forgotten that, SAID hc, end he
told me about tie wart cure.
The best thing for warts, said Call
Officer George Hamilton. 'Is io cut
the wart with q borrowed knife Let
q drop or two If blood fall ON a white
piece Of paper and then fold up thc
paper like note and drop 1t in The
rosd where somebody is almost Ger
tain TO see itand pick 1t up In less
than week frol thc tune tao note IS
picked up your wan will be gone.
Did you over try itf'
"Ycs. sir, and 10 cured Tic warts. "
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