The Ghost of a Buried Corn.
•> GEEAT IS THE POWEE OF FAITH. Many persona have been tortured by the ghost of an agonising past ; but it is quite new to hear of a living person being agonised by the ghost of a tortured corn. The story, as it conies from America, tells us that a lady had one of her feet amputated and interred in the cemetery. For three weeks afterwards she endured frantic agony in what seemed to her to be a corn on one of the toes of the amputated foot. To humour her fancy, as it was thought, the buried foot was disinterred, when a bandage was found to be wrapped tightly round a corn on the very toe of which the poor lady complained. This bandage being removed and the foot buried in an easy position, the lady lost her pains. The worst or best of the story is its probable truth. Quite as marvellous stories of the eccentricities of nerve suffering are told in the medical schools. In the present instance the obvious view is that after the amputation the nerve retained the pain which had been suffered from the corn up to the moment of the operation. After the discovery and removal of the bandage round the amputated toe (the presence of which bandage is the most curious coincidence in the case) faith effected a cure.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5617, 13 May 1886, Page 3
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232The Ghost of a Buried Corn. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5617, 13 May 1886, Page 3
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