Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-05
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By DAVID q. REEDER. Ph. D.. H.A.
La Forte, Ind.
WARTS.

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article on that well-known affection.
This is an affection with which all are
familiar, and most of us from expert
enee. 1t is not painful, nor e IL
seem to be directly Or indirectly re-
sponsible for any particular derange-
ments, but it is dis1guring! "Ay,
there's the rub. 1t is entirely natural
to desire to be handsome, and he VINO
SCOTS at the assertion is either a hypo-
critic or abnormal
Many a woman, otherwise beautiful,
Is distressingly disfigured by numerous
repellant warts. They may be on her
shapely hands, around the smiling
lips, or on various other portions of
her person:
l presume that most of you have
heard ways of curing this trouble, as
there is scarcely a person who ever
had a wart that has not had various
ridiculous methods of eure proposed.
1t is very amusing, indeed, to hear
some person of accredited intelligence
tell of the magic cure for warts which
they positively know to be efficacious.
81 would not have believed it if | had
not seen it." To this last expression,
which is used in about the same ca
pacity as a woman's vindictive argu-
ment-"because'-I think | should al
ways answer in the language Of my
facetious uncle. Neither would l."
There was a period in the worlds
history when superstition was the or
der of the day, but time is supposed to
have eliminated it. 1t would seem,
however, from some of the methods
Of cure exploited by different people
that it still exists. Take, for example,
the period of witchcraft in our coloni-
al history, and note the methods IN
ployed at Salem, Massachusetts,. Doubt
less all of you are familiar with the
particulars regarding this period. For
the benefit of those who are not, how
ever, | will describe one of their meth
DDS of determining whether or not a
suspected subject was guilty of being
a witch or not. The party to be test
ed was thrown into the river, and il
she scrambled out alive she was adj
judged guilty and treated accordingly;
IL she drowned she was thus proved
innocent. Thus it will be seen that II
a person was aver accused Of being a
witch, death was inevitable.
1t seems incredible that people
should ever have been such barbarous
things as this, and yet when We heal
of some of the superstitions INDUCED
in to-day our ~credulity is not so over
taxed after all.
Not so very long ago | had an OLE
lady confide the following to me, after
impressing me with the unusual favol
she was comforting by imparting sucf
very valuable information:
To remove warts magically, all tina
she claimed was necessary was to g
secretly to a neighbours meathouse an,
secure therefrom a piece of fat meat
then leave the place without ono
, looking back, a la Lots wife with tn
penalty of failure to cure in case O
, disobedience to this part of the rule
, and rub over the wart, or warts, wit
: the meat, and then throw it back owe
the left shoulder.
| have not very many comments t
make regarding this method of cure
except to suggest that the subjec
wear a coat-of-mail and be prepare
for the worst. For 1t may be that tn
particular neighbor upon whom 20
have conferred the honor of being pei
mitted 70 supply the meat has bee
rather bored with this sort of Pre-
cadure, or it may be, would misintel
pref your mission, and unchain tn
. bulldog, Oh even employ a horse pistt
or a musket. | repeat it, when yo
are about to undertake this treatmen
don a coat-of-mail and be prepared fc
the worst.
Another method of cure which
. have often heard solemnly declared
c be of particular merit is the droppir
d of three beans down a we'll. l am
the opinion that the dropping of thrt
beans land a great many more) into
d pot would be more generally satisfa
. tory-and would remove just as mar
Il warts.
Still another method-one which n
own grandmother told me offs tn
of pricking the wart until it bleed
k dipping seven sulphur matches in
n the blood and secreting them in Sc
arate places. | was a boy CT elevt
b when my grandmother advised me
@ use this method of procedure to r
move several seed warts which dec
rated my hands,
Grandmother supplied me with t
l. matches, for | was forbidden to car
them, I pricked the largestsand uglie
wart, and dipped each of the sew
sr sulphur matches unto the bright r
blood. then began to search for
'e place to hide them. | decided to hi
y the first one in an old log house viii
st was then used for a sort of woodsh
1t and storeroom, my grandparents ha
to ing built them a frame structure sol
I'd years previous.
81 | held six of the matches in my i
If hand, and in my right the one viii
or | was to hide. | began searching abe
III for a suitable place, but was distra
ed from my work by a paper lying |
der some boards which contained
number of comic pictures. | pulled
te out and sat down among some sh;
er ings, chips, old shingles, ETC., to 10
is at the pictures. This is where |
!" wrong. My grandfather happened
r and /, being absorbed with the r
ut lures did not notice him. He saw
is paper, the s%havings, ETC.. and