Old-fashioned Remedies for Corns
1. Make a shield of buckskin with an opening cut in it the size of the corn. Touch the exposed part with carbolic acid, or take common sticking plaster, cut in the same form a circle with a small circle cut from it. Apply several of these, one over the other, leaving the corn exposed, then in the opening drop a saturated solution of caustic soda and cover with a piece of the plaster. Renew this every three or four days, and the corn will be gone in a couple of weeks or less, or pursue the same plan with the carbolic acid.
2. Aqua Ammonia applied as often as possible, is almost a certain cure.
3. Paring Corns should be done with a razor at regular intervals.
4. Rubbing with pumice stone is safer than paring.
5. Soft corns may have diluted carbolic acid used upon them. To touch them frequently with iodine is good.
--1 to 5 from the 20th Century Cookbook--