September 28, 1944.

Mr. Joseph A. Marman,

City Recreational Direetor, —
Basketball and Track Coach,
New Ulm, Minnesota.

Dear Mr. Harman:

I em glad that you liked "Better Basketball”, I think you will find
it quite informative at times.

Now, regarding the plantar warts on the bottom of the feet. Take a
sharp knife, do not cut but pick the excess mutastic accumlations from —
the area. Do not trim any part of the skin area away and do not pick out
this mterial until it gets tender. Rather, scarify the tissues without
causing a tenderness or bleeding. | :

 Pake nitric acid and dip the porous end of a wooden match into the
nitric acid. Do not leave any excess of fluid, but touch up the end of
the wart with this nitric acid. There should be no excess of moisture
in the wart area but just enough to kill the growth of the wart. Then
take a very small bit of unguentine and put immediately over the nitric
acid applicetion. Then take a large squere piese of adhesive, about twenty
times the aren of the wart, and paste the adhesive over that area.

Generally one application will do a good job. Weit for about five
days, look at the area and if that wart has not gone entirely, touch it
up again. Of course remove all of the unguentine from that area before
the secom application because the grease will not permit the acid to act
on the tissue that you desire eliminated. Two or three applications will

always do the job.

If there is any trimaing with a rasor blade around that area it is a
mistake. You better wait until Neture grows a good heavy skin over the
area if the trimaing has been done. ‘You need all the pad and cushion,
and the burning takes place just enough to clear the masticity.

Thanks for your good wishes, - and mine to yous
Sincerely yours,

Director. of Physical Education,
FCAtAH Varsity 1 Coach.

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