I am a chronic wartiste, and have tried many therapies (traditional and modern) to rid me of them. I currently have two, and a well established verruca has recently left me. I'd forgotten I had the verruca until a kind waxing-lady pointed it out again recently. Next time I went, she pointed out that it had gone. That might be a bit magic.
I've tried to sell warts to my grandmother, who was similarly afflicted, but she claimed to know the fairies at the bottom of the garden.
I once had a collection of perhaps two dozen on my hands (I'm very aware I'm doing myself no favours, here) and went to a hospital where a man tried, over some months, to gradually freeze them away. It was a miserable failure. I gave up, and a matter of weeks later, they all disappeared over a period of a few days. That seemed like magic.
More recently I have had it explained to me by some killjoy doctor that warts, being viral, do not always respond typically to the immune system. "It takes time," he said, "but once the immune system has worked them out, they're a piece of piss."
I prefer the magic. |
