[ A Cure for Corns ]
Date: Written sometime in 1776. | 1776/01/01 to 1776/12/31
Source:
Handley Chipman's Notes, Vol. 2
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives
| Source Origin: Chipman Family Papers
| Reference: MG Vol. 218 / Microfilm Reel 10,154
A method of treating corns with soaking and the application of plant leaves or an adhesive plaster, No. 104, p. 62.
A Cure for Corns,
The whole cure consists in Softning the Corns,
by Repeated washings of the feet in pretty hot
water, then in Cutting them when soft
penknife or scissars, without wounding the Sound
parts, and next in applying a Leaf of house:
:Leek, of ground ivy or of purslain dipt in
Vinegar, upon the part, or he that has corns
may apply a plaister of Simple diachylon, or
Of Gum ammoniacum softened in Vinigar,
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