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Show You needn't have corns if you will learn to care for your feet properly. Corns are the result of shoes that do not fit properly either too tight or too loose, it does not matter which. One way pinches the foot, the other way rubs it. and a yellow callous bit of skin forms where the pressure is constant. Now to treat corns, the first thing is to soak the foot in very warm water fifteen minutes, then to moisten the corn with spirits of ammonia. This softens the skin, and with a corn knife you can frequently lift the edges of the callous, and sometimes take off the whole top of the corn. Then the spot is covered with an antiseptic carbolic car-bolic salve is good, and bound with a bit of linen. If all the corn doesn't come off, binding a piece of lemon over It and keeping it there even a couple of days, renewing the lemon each night, will enable you to remove the entire callous. Where there is Inflammation, a good old-fashioned flax seed poultice has no equal. This will draw all soreness out during the night and allow the corn to be treated in the morning. Afterwards After-wards a piece of felt or chamois should bo cut larger than the corn, with a small hole left for ventilation, and bound over the spot This prevents the shoe from rubbing. It is so easy to treat ordinary corns at home, by such simple remedies as are described above, that it seoms a shame for people to resort to caustics to remove corns. It really takes an expert to apply strong lotions, for whateats the hard skin is often spread over 'the live skin, eating and poisoning poison-ing that. |