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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18534, 19 October 1923, Page 5

SOFTENS CORNS' AND CALLOUSES /LIKE WATER SOFTENS SOAP. " Refreshing to the feet as mountain air ;. to the lungs./ Aches,; : swellings, sore- : '/■;- ness, / tenderness, // excessive / perspiration, efc., soon had -■ to g^o]'' /;;; says C ; • r former sufferer from foot ; misery, who i/repeats a famous specialist's 1 advice. After caustio?"■ liquids, cutting, plasters arid .other temporary expedients had produced great pain but no ? relief, ) I consulted //a > well-known specialist. Ho explained that -callouses and corns are simply hardened, parfly dead skin formed by shoe pressure^-clogged pores, and poor circulation .due to ; feet being the farthest* : extremities to . which v the t heart must pump blood. Such growths arc without nerves or blood vessels themselves, but they -cause/Che acute misery by pressing on and irritating the extremely .-. sensitive. , nerve tissues beneath. To / refresh the. ? feet, remove callouses. and take corns out; j roots and all, it: is only neceisarv to rest J I them /in hot salCratcd water. This has. no effect whatever on ■.; the.;> structure of , normal, healthy skin, but it immediately j - dissolves out the .waxy substances '. from J clogged pores; also the oil from hardened j skin, and leaves the latter almost?, as. soft j ■ as -i piece of water-soaked soap. In fact,. I was told by the; specialist : .who,; prescribed saltrated water .-that its action on corns and callouses is. quite similar to the effect" of u water on a/piece ./of/soap./ To prepare the saltrated water, which is ; both • medicated and oxygenated, : simply dissolve in about 'a gallon ; of. water a i handful of the refined ?Reudel|}Batli /Salt-/} rates, which is obtainable ajl/little;cost? 'from' any chemist,, this beiriij .the'.-'regis-. • tered' name by which medicjil -men and. j chiropodists prescribe the compound. £;:

SOMETHING .GOOD-FOR CHILDREN. The safest ' > laxative for' children and one '■■•■■ which they joy ~ : taking—! Kruse's Fluid ■ / Magnesia. Important! Kruse's is the original, genuine preparation. f -. Avoid. "cheaper ; substitutes. Is 6d all chemists. v Cheaper than; imported brands sbecause no y; doty rates ;to pay—better value too. , <