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Wart or Corn Powder

Ivyleaves dried and ground to fine powder. A popular and useful remedy for warts and soft + of spirit; all the food-the bread, meat, and corns. The part having been moistened with the vegetables steeped in spirit and water. strong vinegar, a pinch of the powder is The poor patient is continually drunk. On sprinkled on it, and then bound on with a the fifth day of this treatment he has an ex- strip of rag. This is sometimes called costreme disgust for spirit; he earnestly requests metic vegetable caustic. A mixture of equal other diet; but his desire must not be yielded to, until he no longer desires to eat or drink; he is then certainly cured of his love of drink.

He acquires such a disgust for brandy, or other spirits, that he is ready to vomit at the very sight of it.