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From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Plantar Warts
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 08:50:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 08:50:17 1985
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Just thought I would throw in my experiences with warts.

When I was about 10 years old, my right hand was covered with
about 35 warts.  My grandfather, born and raised in the Ozarks,
and much wisened to folk medicine, told me to fetch a potato,
cut it in half, rub the warts with the potato, put the halves
back together, and bury them in the garden.  He then said the
warts would be gone in two weeks.  I did as I was told and
by damn, they were gone in two weeks.  My kids laugh when I tell
them this, but, it worked.

As an aside, we had a large patch of blackberry vines by the side
of our house that were getting out of hand.  We tried cutting, digging,
and burning to get rid of them.  Grandpa said the only way to get
rid of them was to dig them up by the light of a full moon in
August.  Needless to say, it worked.

Grampa's medical kit consisted of lard, turpentine, camphor, and
a few other strange concoctions.  Liberal doses of combinations
of these things were our cures for many years.  I was perhaps the
strangest smelling kid in grade school during those days.
T. C. Wheeler


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