Treatment

The shoes or boots worn must fit the foot - neither too small nor too large. The corn may be gotten rid of by soaking it in warm water, after which the outer layers may be removed by a sharp knife, and a slice of lemon bound upon it, and worn during the night. This treatment continued for three or four nights, the corn can be removed with but little pain.

Flexible or arnicated colloid may be used as a dressing for painful soft corns. Ringed corn plasters will protect the corns from pressure.

If the corns are inflamed and painful, a veratrum viride or arnica lotion, one part to two, may be used.

A lotion, composed as follows, applied once or twice a day with a camel's hair brush, has been used with great success in removing corns: Antimon. crud. is the principal internal remedy for hard corns, and Sulphur for the soft variety.


Dr. Berridge reports a case of soft corn between fourth and fifth toes of right foot; the corn shoots and burns; also, dull aching in outer side of right ankle extending up to hip, as cured by the internal use of Wiesbaden 200, a dose every other day for fourteen days.

Callosities are merely hardened conditions of the skin produced by pressure, differing from corns rather in the fact that they are on a larger scale than by any other feature.