The wart is frozen until it and 1 to 2 mm of surrounding skin have turned white (Figure 15) . A repeat freeze after thawing causes more effective tissue destruction than a single freeze. The affected tissue turns red or blisters over the next one to two days, then gradually sloughs off over the following weeks.
Hermana is in Spanish. It is the Spanish word for sister..
SAINT HERMAN OF ALASKA. Herman was born into a simple, merchant family in a suburb of Moscow around 1758. He entered the monastic life in 1772 at the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Skete near St. Petersburg and, in 1779, transferred to the ancient and famous Valaam Monastery in what is Finland today.