The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-18
"THE MYSTERY OF WARTS,
III You Buy the Warts, They win
Leave the Victim soon.

II AOu DuS w hitSs my WIZ
Leave the Victim soon.
Letters in the New York Sun.
I have been interested for some years
in the mystery of warts" Nearly forty
years ago, when a very small boy, l dis
PEELED warts that were upon my own hands
by rubbing them with a piece of common
school crayon. l am a graduate of a New
York city medical college and am legally
qualified to practice medicine in New York
and New Jersey, and / frankly admit that
my usual method of removing warts from
my patients has in recent years been by
the method of buying them. To explain
my modus operandi l usually give the pa
tent a bright penny or nickel and assure
him positively that the warts will soon dis
appear; that they are mine by purchase
and so much leave him. Usually they dis
appear in from four to ten weeks. Among
my wart patients have been the son and
daughter of a well-known doctor of.diVin-
lily, aud girls and boys eff intelligence,
members of our high school, who are pre-
pairing for entrance into our best univer-
sites and colleges. / mention this class
of patients to show that the plan works
upon the intelligent and cultured as Wen
| as upon the ignorant and the supersu-
| tious By way of illustration l viii mar
| rate two instances of cure. A mother con
| suited me about an enormous seed wart
upon the left elbow of her son. The wart
was fully as large as a silver half dollar,
and when the boy bent mis- arm the wart
would crack and bleed. | offered the boy
a new bright penny for the wart and at
first he could not grasp the idea that l
vas serious in my proposal TO buy the
wart. In a few weeks l was interested to
find upon examination that exactly one
half of the wart had disappeared II
seemed as though the wart mad been di
vided through the middle and one-half of
il had been shaved or scraped away. 1
assured the boy that the remaining por-
ton would soon disappear, and so 1t did.
A young woman behind The counter of
| one of our local stores had her hands
| dotted ali over with warts. 1 judge she
| had not less than thirty on each hand
| When l inquired why she did not get rid
| of them, she replied that she had tried
many remedies, but they had all failed,
and she was discouraged IN her efforts.
| / then offered TO buy them of her for a
| penny. The method being so easy and
| pleasant, she agreed to sell them to me,
| and after number Of weeks they all dis
| appeared.
can offer no thoroughly scientific ex-
| PLANTATION for these facts beyond the state
ment that they come under the head of
mental influence. l assert with such posi-
| tiveness my ability to dispel warts by pur-
chase that my patients "sub-conscious
| SELF or subjective mind" is impressed
| by my observation, and. although my
claim is met by smile of Incredibly,
| through their belief in me and The force
| of my observation they half expect il will
! occur as l declare it win. The "sub-con-
scious self" or, as Hudson denominates
| 1t. 'the subjective mind" presides over
| the activities of our physical functions.
| j. e., our physical life, Independently OF
our reasoning faculties, our intellect OF
our collective mind (Hudson) controls
the organs of the body and admits disease
under influences and Impressions uufav-
orable to us and also eliminates disease
| under favorable, forceful suggestion.
Medicus
Potato Juice Dispersed Them.
You have published several letters men
tioning peculiar experiences with "sympa-
! thy cure" of warts Now, / am anything
but superstitious, yet / believe that warts
are Influenced by some such unexplained
| power.
Once upon time / found one wart or
nv forehead, and thereafter a whole col
ony settled on my scalp. They looked like
miniature punches of carrots. and the
more l tied of or burned off, the greater
their number became.
was advised 10 take potato, cut Il
in half and, after rubbing each part three
times over my scalp, pin them together
with a match or toothpick and throw then
into a sewer or closet 60 hasten their de
cav. Within a week from thar day ever,
wart had disappeared and I could agaiT
use the comb or brush nor have ! owe
after had sight Of a warto on any part o
49,. .l.a9v J. y.
TOLD so Go, and went.
had four warts on the in5eX finger o
nv right hand I was then typeset
ter. The warts greatly hindered me II
picling Up type. One spring mornin'
I was out with other boys for a walk
We crossed a piece Of land that had beer
cleared, with stumps OF trces in plenty
out of ore OF these, an oak, white
rouud-topped fungus had grown. In pass
ing I pushed my finger through this sub
stance in a careless way ana passed on
The next stump was hollow and was fille'
WITH water I washed ny hard in hi
water The warts disappeared soon after
never thought OF warts ia the opera
lion. but / did think since that the fun
gus or stump water had something 20 q
with their removal. Another wari forme'
on the knucke Of the same finger MANI
years after Last year met Squir'
Lewis Blakes.ey Of Verplanck's Point Of