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crop of them suddenly appears, to disappear after a time with equal suddenness. Hence the sup-posed efficacy of charms. A single wart will sometimes remain when the See also:

general eruption has vanished. The liability of crops of warts runs in families. In after See also:

LIFE

life a wart on the hands or fingers is usually brought on by some irritation, often repeated, even if it be slight. Warts often occur on the wrists and knuckles of slaughter-See also:

house men and of those much occupied with anatomical See also:

DISSECTION (from Lat. dissecare, to cut apart)

dissection; they are often of tuberculous origin (butchers' warts). See also:

CHIMNEY (through the Fr. cheminee, from caminata, sc. camera, a Lat. derivative of caminus, an oven or furnace)

Chimney-sweeps and workers in See also:

COAL

coal-See also:

tar, See also:

PETROLEUM (Lat. Petra, rock, and oleuin, oil)

petroleum, &c., are subject to warts, which often become cancerous. Warts occur singly in later life on the See also:

NOSE (O.Eng. nosu, cf. Dutch neus, Swed. nos, snout; the Aix in Provence. Both at Aix and at Lyons he acquired great connexion with O.Eng. nasu is obscure, cf. Ger. Nase, Lat. pares, distinction by his labours during outbreaks of the plague. In nostrils,

nose or lips or other parts of the See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face, sometimes on the See also:

TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

tongue; they are very apt to become See also:

MALIGNANT (Lat. malignus, evil-disposed, from maligenus)

malignant. Towards old See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age broad and flattened patches of warts of a greasy consistence and brownish See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour often occur on the back and shoulders. They also are apt to become malignant.

Indeed, warts occurring on the See also:

LIP (a word common in various forms, to Teutonic languages, cf Ger. Lippe, Dan. laebe; Lat. labium is cognate)

lip or tongue, or on any See also:

PART

part of the See also:

BODY

body of a See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person advanced in life, should be suspected of malignant associations and dealt with accordingly. Venereal warts occur as the result of gonorrhoeal irritation or syphilitic infection. A wart consists of a delicate framework of See also:

BLOOD

blood-vessels sup-ported by fibrous See also:

TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser, Lat. texere, to weave)

tissue, with a covering of epidermic scales. When the wart is young, the See also:

SURFACE

surface is rounded; as it gets rubbed it is cleft into projecting points. The blood-vessels, whose outgrowth from the surface really makes the wart, may be in a cluster of parallel loops, as in the See also:

COMMON

common sessile wart, or the vessels may See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch from a single See also:

STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem, making the long, pendulous warts of the chin and neck. The same kinds of warts also occur on mucous surfaces. It is owing to its vascularity that a wart is liable to come back after being shaved off; the vessels are cut down to the level of the skin, but the blood is still forced into the stem, and the branches are thrown out beyond the surface as before. This fact has a bearing on the treatment of warts, if they are snipped off, the blood-vessels of the stem should be destroyed at the same time by a hot See also:

WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire or some other See also:

CAUSTIC (Gr. rcavvraubs, burning)

caustic, or made to shrivel by an astringent. The same end is served by a gradually tightening ligature (such as a See also:

THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)

thread of elastic) See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the See also:

BASE

base of the wart. Glacial acetic or carbolic See also:

ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour)

acid may be applied on the end of a See also:

glass See also:

rod, or by a See also:

CAMEL (from the Arabic Djemal or the Heb. Gamal)

camel-See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair See also:

brush, care being taken not to See also:

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch the adjoining skin. A See also:

SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution of perchloride of See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron is also effective in the same way. Nitrate of See also:

SILVER

silver is objectionable, owing to the See also:

black stains See also:

LEFT

left by it.

A See also:

SIMPLE

simple domestic remedy, often effectual, is the astringent and acrid juice of the common stonecrop (See also:

SEDUM

Sedum See also:

acre) rubbed into the wart, time after time, from the freshly gathered See also:

HERB (Lat. herba, grass, food for cattle, generally taken to represent the Old Lat. forbea, Gr. 4op(3i1, pasture, <0p/3Ew, to feed, Sans. bharb, to eat)

herb. The result of these various applications is that the wart loses its firmness, shrivels up, and falls off. Malignant and tuberculous warts should be removed by the scalpel or See also:

sharp See also:

SPOON (O. Eng. span, a chip or splinter of wood, cf. Du. spoon, Ger. Spahn, in same sense, probably related to Gr. r4 v, wedge)

spoon, their bases, if thought advisable, being treated by pure carbolic acid. A See also:

PECULIAR

peculiar See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of wart, known as See also:

vet-ragas, occurs endemically in the See also:

ANDES

Andes. It is believed to have been one of the causes of the excessive mortality from haemorrhages of the skin among the troops of See also:

PIZARRO, FRANCISCO (c. 1471 or 1475-1541)

Pizarro. See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

Attention was called to it by Dr See also:

ARCHIBALD, 5TH EARL OF DOUGLAS (c. 1391–1439)

Archibald See also:

Smith in 1842; in 1874, during the making of the Trans-Andean railway, it caused considerable loss of life among See also:

ENGLISH

English navvies and See also:

ENGINEERS, MILITARY

engineers. (E.

End of Article: WART (Lat. verruca)

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