Corns are like the little worries of life--very teazing and troublesome a good remedy for a corn--which the Galbanum Plaster undoubtedly is-is therefore worth knowing. _Hard corns_, then, on the sole and on the side of the foot are best treated by the file, _hard corns_ on the toes by the scissors, and _soft corns_ between the toes either by the strong Acetic Acid or by the Galbanum Plaster. In the generality of cases the plans recommended above, if properly performed, will effect a cure, but if the corn, from pressure or from any other cause, should return, remove it again, and proceed as before directed. If the corn have been caused either by tight or by ill fitting shoes, the only way to prevent a recurrence is, of course, to have the shoes, properly made by a clever shoemaker--by one who thoroughly understands his business, and who will have a pair of lasts made purposely for the feet. [Footnote: As long as fashion instead of common sense is followed in the making of both boots and shoes, men and women will, as a matter of course, suffer from corns. It has, often struck me as singular, when all the professions and trades are so overstocked, that there should be, as there is in every large town, such a want of chiropodists (corn-cutters)--of respectable chiropodists--of men who would charge a _fixed_ sum for every visit the patient may make, for instance to every working man a shilling, and to every gentleman half-a-crown or five shillings for _each_ sitting, and not for _each_ corn (which latter system is a most unsatisfactory way of doing business). I am quite sure that of such a plan were adopted, every town of any size in the kingdom would employee regularly one chiropodist at least. However we might dislike some few of the American customs, we may copy them with advantage in this particular--namely, in having a regular staff of chiropodists both in civil and in military life.] The German method of making boots and shoes is a capital one for the prevention of corns, as the boots and shoes are made, scientifically to fit a _real_ and not an _ideal_ foot. One of the best preventatives of as well as of the best remedies for corns, especially of soft corns between the toes, is washing the feet every morning as recommended in a previous Conversation, [Footnote: Youth--Ablution, page 250.] taking especial care to wash with the thumb, and afterwards to wipe with the towel between each toe. 383. _What are the best remedies to destroy a Wart_?