Corns

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Historical label: “Corns” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”.

Modern reading: corns. Searched in PubMed as each plant’s Latin name with corns OR callus OR keratolytic OR hyperkeratosis. The counts and papers are on the Concordance page.

Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.

2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone

  1. Houseleek Or Sengreen Sempervivum tectorumCLM-0005441850 index
    The juice also takes away worts and corns in the hands or feet, being often bathed therewith, and the skin and leaves being laid on them afterwards.
    QUO-000460Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. The Willow Tree Salix albaCLM-0005451850 index
    the burnt ashes of the bark being mixed with vinegar, takes away warts, corns, and superfluous flesh, being applied to the place.
    QUO-000461Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance

Source

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850