Divide a Red Onion, and rub the warts well with it.
Anoint the warts with the milky Juice of the herb Mercury several times, and they will gradually waste away.
268. Another safe and experienced Method.
Rub the warts with a pared Pippin, and a few days afterwards they will be found to disappear.
[VINEGARS.]
Fill a stone cucurbit about three parts and a half full of White Wine Vinegar; place the vessel in a furnace so contrived as to contain three parts of the height of the cucurbit; mould the openings that remain between the sides and the upper part of the vessel with clay tempered with water; lute the vessel, fix on a receiver, and begin your distillation with a moderate fire, which is to be increased by degrees till about five sixths of the Vinegar are drawn off, which is called Distilled Vinegar. A small quantity of acid Liquor still remains in the cucurbit of the consistence of Honey, which if you think proper may be dried hard by the assistance of a vapour-bath. The Vinegar distilled from this substance is infinitely more acid, than that which was drawn off by the first process.