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 and then let it rise again, and thus imitate natural breathing. Continue the rubbing, and increase it when life appears, and then give a tee-spoonful of warm water, or of very weak wine or spirits and warm water. Persevere for six hours. Send quickly for medical assistance.

Cut an apple, and rub it for a few minutes over the wart; the juice of the apple will loosen the wart, and in a few days it will drop off. Any strong acid, either vegetable or mineral, has the same tendency.

Mr Cooper, in his Dictionary of Surgery gives the following recipe as infallible for the cure of corns:--Take two ounces of gum ammoniac, two ounces of yellow wax, six drams of verdigris, melt them together, and spread the composition on a piece of soft leather or linen, cut away as much of the corn as you can with a knife before you apply the plaster, which must be renewed in a fort'night, if the corn is not by that time gone: