The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-20
THE MANAGEMENT OF
 VERRUCA

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 The removal of non-cancerous moles and warts from the face calls for the finest skill of the surgeon. Individuals of limited intelligence may be willing to submit to the miracle workers of the market place, the barbers, beauty doctors" and self commented pastic surgery in- stitutes, but those who value their personal appearance, comfort and safety invariably select Q physician or surgeon of repute to treat any such blemish.
 To me, Q wart on my own skin would be mildly interesting, but a wart on the skin of a potential pa- tient has always been irritating. I'd better explain this, so you won't be puzzled about it. It is simply that I never learned the proper manage ment of warts. Nine times out of ten my advice, if sought at all, was curbstoned out of me. Caught be- tween my office and my buggy by the casual passerby-it was extraor- dinary how many of them just hap pened to be strolling by--and con- fronted with @ trifiing wart, what could I do? Mutter about the dan- ger of cancer, blood-poisoning, lockjaw? The brighter would recoil in righteous horror and start a whispering question my mental state or limiting that I was hitting the dope. A medical practitioner has only to brush the fur of such a cat the wrong way to fan into flame the ever smouldering Srspi- cion that he uses dope.
 learned, too late, the key to the wart problem. I offer 1t here to young doctors who, I suppose, are still more or less subject to the curbstone evil, though such custom CTS are in danger of being picked up as pan-handlers in these days of fast cruising. This is the secret: No such thing as 8 wart. The lesion Is always verruca. My dear man, take my advice and have that ver- rucca removed immediately. Come to the office tomorrow"
 There you have him. He can't grumble. You've really gone out of your way to do him a favor, giv- ing him 8 kindly warning against trifling with potentially dangerous lesion. There's fair chance he may decide to see 1t through, even if it costs him a fee. Whereas, un- der the old custom. whoever heard of a doctor demanding a fee for just telling person what to put onto a wart?
 That's why warts irritate me so. They're like weak ankles in that re- spect. Took me many years to learn that weak ankles are in fact pronated feet.
 Physicians who have enjoyed suc- cess in dealing with such cosmetic blemishes as moles and warts re- port the most satisfactory results from the use of trichloracetic acid Ca caustic far too dangerous for the layman to trife with) followed after minute or two by electro-desicca- ton (diathermy) - the escliarotic action of the trichloracetic acid having a sufficient anesthetic effect to make the whole treatment toler- able without any other local anes- thetic.
 For removing wart along the edge of the eyelid, where the escha- rotic would be unsafe. the favored method is to inject under the skin of the lid two per cent. butyn solu- ton, and then desiccation with the endothermy or diathermy.
 Not only moles and warts, but other small lesions are successfully treated with these methods, notably small "corns", scars, vascular neyi or "birthmarks", flbromas and horny noduleS.