Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1898 — Efficacious Prescription. [ARTICLE]

Efficacious Prescription.

A lady who had suffered tortures from a corn upon one of her toes called on a professional chiropodist, He soon relieved her of the hardened little offender, and besides paying him his fee, she thanked him heartily. “Please tell me, doctor,” she said, “how I can prevent another one coming in its place.” “Well, madam,” he replied, after a moment’s reflection, “I am doctor enough, perhaps, to give you a prescription that will always prevent a corn from coming." He tore a leaf, out of n note-book, wrote a few words upon it, and handed it to her. It read: “Looshoo. Apply One a day.” “You can get it at almost any place,” lie explained.. “There is no charge. You are welcome.” After inquiring in vain at several drug stores for “looshoo,” she showed the prescription to a friend, who studied it a moment and said: “Why, that is plain enough. It means ‘loose shoe!’ ” The prescription was tried, and proved effective.