Word: warts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soot filled every pore, inflamed the eyes, lodged in the scrotum and caused the horrid "sooty-wart" or "chimney sweeper's cancer." Many boys were made consumptive by the lack of food, the damp cellars where they slept on soot-bags, and the chill of early mornings when they tramped the streets crying, "Sweep for the soot O! Sweeeup!" at the top of their poor, frayed lungs...
...ready for permanent retirement. The Old Roundhead had been for 287 years on the same old pikestaff (where it had been placed for exhibition when Cromweli's body was exhumed, hanged and beheaded after Charles II's restoration). In a remarkable state of preservation, complete to a wart over the right eye, it was brought out of the bedroom chest of Canon Horace Ricardo Wilkinson in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, for a brief public appearance...
...Wart Purrzon...
Britain's Dr. William Samuel Inman, eye surgeon and psychoanalyst, has some ideas on curing warts that might have come right out of the Mark Twain pharmacopoeia. In the issue of Lancet that reached the U.S. last week, Inman told of a 13 -year-old boy who came to him with ten warts on his thumb. Dr. Inman told him to touch the tip of his tongue to each wart every morning because saliva is peculiarly poisonous to warts, but not to tell anybody. The warts went away...
Inman tried the same remedy on an eight-year-old boy, but it failed because he told somebody. So Inman instructed him to "steal a potato from his mother's store, halve it, touch each wart with the raw surface, 'and then bury the potato in the backyard by the light of the full moon - all in the greatest secrecy." Those warts went away, too. The doctor cured an adult of a shin wart by having him apply saliva with his finger...