Important: Safety Warning
This page directs the use of hazardous substances — such as benzine, gasoline, lye, or strong acids — for household tasks. These materials are highly flammable, corrosive, or poisonous, and the practices described have caused fires, burns, and poisonings.
This page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
To Remove Warts
- Touch them gently with sulphuric acid, or with a strong solution of sal ammoniac in water, or with lapis infernalis (blue stone). This will remove them, if the milder applications fail, such as rubbing them with sprigs of purslain, or with the water which oozes out of the shells of snails by means of a little perforation expressly made.