Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-19
WART AND CORN CURES.
Superstttious Notions That Pre-.
vail in the Sunny South.
The Curative Virtues Of Bean Leaves
Removing Wart by Rubbing 1t with
Red Corn Cob-A Comicai
Remedy for Hard Corns.


"The best cure on earth for wart,n said
captain Mercer few days ago to an At
ianta Constitution reporter, sis one that an
old negro woman told me about long time
ago.
Slows thatr'
'She told me to remember some morning
early when / was gathering beans in the
swamp, and take a bean leaf and rub the
wart smartly with the rough side of the
Leaf. was to rub the wart just as long as
Icould stand 1t, and in week from that
time, If hadn't told anybody about it, the
wart would go away"
"Did you try itl''
"Yes. sir, and that wart went away, too. -
II never found but one remedy for Q
Wart," said Mr.. Oscar Hall. "An old negro
woman gave me the recipe when I was
little boy, and it's the only cure ever
found.
"She told me to go to the corn-held some
evening during the. full of the moon and
nnd an ear of red corn. You know the cob
ls red when the grain is red. / was to
shock and shell the ear of corn and then rub
the wart with the cob. was to look 1t the
moon, and not at the wart or the cob, and
rub just as hard and as long as could stand
IT. II took my eyes away from the moon It
would spoil the remedy. When the wart
became sore and stinging was to throw
down the cob, and in five days from that
time the wart would be gone'
show did it work."
''Inside of five days the wart was gone. I
had tried fifty remedies to get rid of that
wart, and nothing else had ever done any
good"
81 never found but one thing that could
DO any good for a wart or corn" said
Patrolman W. g. Cooper.
WHATS that's"
"a SNAIL" said the patrolman, solemnlv,
There was an embarrassing silence for a
little while, and then the policeman con-
tinued:
"Here one time was digging potatoes in
my garden. My corn kept hurting until 1
just took OF my shoe and lay down on my
back in a grassy place in the shade. The
corn kept hurting and 1 was getting des-
perate about it, when I noticed a snail
crawling along near me. ! remembered
what an old negr~ told me years before,
and caught the snail and began rubbing
the corn with it. broke the shell and con-
tlnued the rubbing until the pain stopped.
have never been troubled with that corn
from that day to this, and before that it
had troubled me night and day for months.
It's the only cure for corns, and it's a
mighty good remedy for warts, too"
There's only one cure for a wart," said
Patrolman Frank Christophine.
"What is itl'
IA darky told me about 1t. He said to
remember some night when the moon was
full and to go directly west. Then was to
stop, looking at the moon all the time, and
stoop down and pick up whatever my hand
happened to touch first. / remembered it
one night when I was going out Marietta
street. stopped down, looking up at the
moon all the time, and picked up a small
stone. Then rubbed the wart until it be-
gan to bleed and then threw down the
some All the time [ was rubbing the
wa-t was still looking at the moon. In
less than week from that night the wart
was gone. That was regular old seed
wart and had been trying to get rid of it
for long time. That's the only remedy I
ever found for warts"
Zone time in Americus,n said Station
house Keeper John Joiner, sT saw a
strange wart cure tried"
''How did it work9'
ut cured the warts. My son Charley was a
little fellow then, and both hands were COW
cred with warts. One day he was standing
in front OF the store when darky noticed
the warts and called Charley aside. sDo
you want a cureP asked the darky. sYes.'
said Charley. The negro gave him chew
run down the street just as hard as you can
go until you meet negro. Hand him the
chew OF tobacco. Ifhe chews it, you needn't
think any thing about it. The wait will be
gone inside week. If the darkey won't
take it, or won't chew it, you must try it
again. Take new chew of tobacco and
run down the street until you meet a negro.
Don't tell anybody what I've told you. until
the warts are gone My boy tried it. I
saw him run down the street and suddenly
stop and hand something to q negro. I
asked him about it, but he said he couldn't
tell Five or six days afterward happened
to notice that the warts were all gone from
his hanus and called his attention to IL. Il
had nearly forgotten that said he, and he
told me about the wart cure"
"The best thing for warts - said Call On
Ger George Hamilton, ''is to cut the wart
with borrowed knife. Let a drop or two
OF blood fall on white piece Of paper and
then fold up the paper like note and drop
it in the road where somebody in almost
certain to see it and pick it up. In less than
. week from the time the note Is picked up
your wart will be gone"
"Did you ever try it?'
"Yes, sir, and 1t cured the warts"