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On one occasion I was in the shop and a German Officer came in, and he looked at my hand, I had 7 warts on my left hand and he looked at them and he said 鈥� my goodness he said, those are big warts, well, I鈥檓 a doctor. So I said Oh yes, and he spoke very good English, and he said, I鈥檒l tell you what, I鈥檒l see your boss, so he chatted to my boss, and he said 鈥� if you want to let him come tomorrow morning, stand in the queue with the German soldiers, outside, and come into my surgery and I鈥檒l get rid of those warts for him. So he said yes, he can do that, and the house that he was operating from was Royston, at the Friquet at the Castel. So I was standing there with this crowd of Germans, we had to stand outside and we had to go in one at a time. There was another German in front of me and he had warts on a hand, so he apparently was going in for the same thing. So he looked at me, and thought 鈥� that nipper there, I was about 14 then, and he said 鈥� you go in front of me, so he put me in front of him, obviously he wanted to see what was going to happen to me before he put his hand out.

So I put my hand out and one of the orderlies grabbed it to hold it steady, and sprayed some stuff on my hand and deadened the whole hand, and then he scooped them all out with a sort of scalpel, and there was blood everywhere but I didn鈥檛 feel anything. Then he put some stuff on and he bandaged the lot and he said to me, 鈥渄on鈥檛 touch it at all, and in a fortnight you take the bandage off and you鈥檒l find they have come back exactly as they were.鈥� And he said 鈥渨hen that time comes, you just pull them off, peel them off.鈥� This I did, and he said they will never come back again, and they never did.
FRANK LE TISSIER

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