This advertisement from the late 1870s advises the customer that there were cheap imitations around and not to simply ask for a "Corn Pencil" - ask for the "Original Medico-Pencil," which was an "elegant addition to the toilet."Mary Schaeffer Conroy, in her book In Health and In Sickness (1994) writes that De Graves' Medico-Pencils were essentially "little tubes of chloric acid" [p. 531]. The Wikipedia article on chloric acid is here, and it is not clear to me what this would do for warts and corn - eradicate them, supposedly.
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Tomorrow I'll be writing about some changes coming to the Virtual Dime Museum. Stay tuned!
5 comments:
Yes, eradicate them there warts, I'll bet. The ingredient "sulphuric acid" was my clue. :) You don't hear that much about warts today. Corns get all the publicity.
I hope your changes to your bog are gradual. I get paranoid from noticeable change. I am already pacing the floor at the thought. :)
I want to apologize to you for the previous comment. He isn't really allowed out on his own to make his own comments. I will watch him closer. Sorry.
Oh, Lidian, don't change it too much! It's so much fun the way it is! Hope your New Year is going well so far!
Tal E. - Don't worry, I'm not talking about anything major. Please do not pace the floor while feeling paranoid!
Max - Not a problem...I sometimes walk around the kitchen table, which helps me think things out - if the Bronte sisters did this (and they did0 it is good enough for me!
Laura - Everything is cool, not to worry. I am just going to alternate long and short posts a bit more in order to make time to possibly develop a 3rd blog...
And thank you all for your concern, I am so glad you like VDM! :)
hi friend! nice blog U got here..would U mind if we xlinks? pls let me know..thx :)and i'm ec dropped
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