In 1909, F . C . Knowles released a study describing how he had deliberately infected two children in an orphanage with " Molluscum contagiosum " a virus that causes wartlike growths after an outbreak in the orphanage, in order to study the disease.
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The skin is not moist, and is often covered with wartlike tubercles containing the openings of protective poison glands . ( The appearance of these glands gave rise to the myth that they can give warts to people who handle them . ) They tend to walk rather than hop.
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Given half a chance, an opera fan will go on and on about Jussi Bjoerling's lyric grace, or Franco Corelli's thrilling high notes, or Enrico Caruso's exhausting career, which led to the development of wartlike growths on his vocal cords and irreversibly thickened a lightly timbred voice.
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Nearby is a work by an anonymous woman known only as " the rival of Abatan, " whose piece, made in the 19th century, takes the form of a heavily stylized female figure with a row of wartlike bumps down each arm, and sporting an open pot attached to her belly.
