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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 7

SOFTENS CORNS AND CALLOUSES LIKE WATER SOFTENS SOAP. ''Refreshing to the feet as mountain air to the lungs-i Aches, swellings, • soreness, tenderness, excessive perspiration, etc., soon had to go." says former sufferer foot misery, who repeats a ' famous specialist's advice. , : After caustic • liquids, cutting, plasters and other temporary expedients had produced great pain but ./no _ relief, I consulted a well-known specialist. He explained that callouses and corns are simply hardened, partly, dead skin formed by shoe pressure, clogged pores, and poor circulation due to fc-et being the farthest extremities to which the heart must pump blood. Such growths are without nerves or blood vessels themselves, but they cause the acute misery by pressing on and irritating the extremely sensitive nervo tissues beneath. To refresh the feet, remove callouses and take i corns out, roots and alt, it is only necessary to rest them in hot saltrated water. This has no effect whatever on the structure of normal, healthy ■ akin, but it immediately . dissolves out the waxy substances from clogged t pore, also the oil from hardened skin, anci leaves the latter almost as soft as . nV; piece of water-soaked soap. In fact, .1 was told by the specialist who ? prescribed saltrated water' that its action on corns and callouses is quite similar to the effect of water on a piece of sunp. To prepare the salt rated water, which is - both medicated and oxygenated,* simply dissolve in about • a gallon :• of water a . handful of the refined Beudel Bath Salt- > rates, which is obtainable -at little; cost from any chemist, this being the registered name by which medical j men and'f chiropodists (prescribe the compound.-\ Ad«. ________ For Chilaron e Hacking Cough. _ ■>' •JrTvvWMdi' Qrcfti I'eapcrme^-Oow,|§| 1 ■ v'■ : ■' l y. .