Jt- Jt idly ily Health Service gic Cant Can't Take Warts arts Off But Doctor Will f R. R MORRIS l of oC the American Mcd Mcd- and of or the Health Magazine I Walker a great British i n said that the ways of or orr r rc re mysterious Everyone hat it groups of ot warts some some- dish ish following various magi magl- ds and that they appear as as ns the they disappear d caused Dr Karl to tote tote toto te to some of the mysterious by which warts are caused pear in order to find out there wa w was any actual virtue these methods thod ethod involves applying the ice of an apple to the wart me when the moon is wan wan- then burying the apple An An- thod suggests that the wart d with a piece of ot green grcen un un- ork ark until the skin around the theames ames omes red and then burying Another method involves thread about the wart until ad cuts into the wart then the thread country several Indian meth meth- Ive Ire massa massaging ing the wart vig vig- during lightning making a plea to the new moon applying the blood bloo of oC a hed hedgehog and invoking special cial gods who are arc supposed to be bc associated associated as as- with warts Of or course these magic cures are ridiculous Dr believes that the spontaneous spontaneous spon spon- disappearance of ot the warts must be due to some chemical change in the body which makes the body an unfavorable soil for tor the causative virus or organism responsible for Cor the thew wart w il Sometimes warts disappear after arter Irritation Irritation Ir Ir- Ir with the ultraviolet or with the X ray X-ray ray which may also change the I chemical reactions in the human body Various dru drugs s have been applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied which sometimes do actually d destroy troy the wart and on other occasions occasions occa change the condition of or the I blood The mere fact tact that warts wart disappear spontaneously causes some doubt as asto asto asto to the use of any method of or treatment since it is never possible to say y whether or not the warts would have disappeared without treatment It is known that actual surgical removal removal re re- re moval of or the wart or its destruction Eby by appropriate agents does docs get rid of oC the wart every time Other methods quite frequently fail