some time, and the soft elasticity of the gland has disappeared in a firmer enlargement, which extends toward the sides of the neck and involves the lymphatic glands, then the magnetic current is of little benefit. Iodine was long administered internally for this disease, with next to no benefit, but certainly leaving traces of its inadaptedness. In advanced stages of this swelling, we would recommend the frequent application of the magnetizer's hand. Let no patient expect an absorption of the gathered material after the hardening process is complete, unless by a most constant use of human magnetism, in connection with an occasional bathing of the parts with cajaput oil mixed with chloroform and bay rum.

Treatment for Old Sores.

The best general remedy within our knowledge for a disease in the feet and ankles, with sores that open and close for months, is a wash made of pokeberry leaves and roots, or of crab-apple tree bark, or of black Indian hemp. Make a strong tea of either, and use it to wash and cleanse the parts, with or without soap, as you feel inclined. It will greatly expedite the cure to expose the parts to the breathings of a horse, dog, or cow. If possible, let a dog sleep near, and exhale his breath over, the sorest surfaces.

Fever Sores and Tumors.

Syringe the sore every morning with the following liquid : White oak bark (inside,) four ounces, boiled in a quart of water to a pint. When cold, bottle it, and add one ounce of borax, in small pieces. Use a little for each dressing of the sore.

Bathe a growing tumor with the fresh juice of burdock. Pound and press the leaves until you obtain sufficient fluid to thoroughly saturate the diseased part. After this application,

use the magnetism of your own hand; always rubbing from the top downward. Bathe the irritated surfaces thoroughly with pure soap and flax-seed tea, forming a suds, then take fresh slaked lime and dust the diseased parts at least twice a day.

Medicine for Scrofula and Erysipelas.

Let no patient expect to be healed by the performance of miracles. "Vicarious atonements" are dangerous in theory, and impossible in practice. You must individually deserve the possession of every luxury. If, therefore, you would be healed of eruptive diseases, itch, salt rheum, &c., let your table-habits be righteous and reasonable. Cancerous and scrofulous constitutions cannot be too careful about the solids and fluids which they eat and drink. In addition to directions which we have been impressed to give in a former volume, we will suggest the following beverage for scrofulous individuals: Mountain dittany, yellow dock, ele campane, and comfrey roots, of each eight ounces; white-pine, wild-cherry, and butternut barks, of each five ounces; guaiac chips, blue flag, and licorice-root, of each two ounces; break these ingredients together, put them into an iron vessel, and tincture them one week in three quarts of brandy, when strain off the brandy; then add three gallons of water, and steep the mixture over a slow fire for one whole day; add the same quantity of water, and boil the whole rapidly down to nearly one gallon; then strain it immediately. After this liquid is perfectly cold, add half an ounce of the muriated tineture of iron, return the brandy, and one quart more of good French brandy, and bottle it very tight.

This preparation may be regarded as wine. It may be diluted with water, and sweetened with sugar, as the patient's taste and strength demand. Whenever thirst is experienced, and while eating such articles of food as are prescribed by

experience, this pleasant and highly potent beverage may be used as wine. It may be much diluted—even a table-spoonful of this wine to a gill or two gills of water-and it will assist the diseased structures to harmony.

This beverage should be made and taken for at least one year, with occasional intermissions. It is designed for those various cutaneous conditions, already named, which are the incipient manifestations of the cancerous or scrofulous tendencies of the system; but it is particularly good, as a remedial drink, for such constitutions as are already suffering with the cancerous or scrofulous formations.

Treatment for Chronic Erysipelas.

This disease is characterized by a redness and inflammation of the skin at the place attacked, accompanied in a few hours by considerable swelling and oppressive fullness.

REMEDY. The patient should have a vapor-bath, producing a thorough sweat, every day-perhaps twice, if the symptoms are violent-until the inflammation is all drawn out of the head, and a balance of the system is established. If the limbs are affected with the erysipelas fire, we still urge a complete sweating of the body every day, with proper attention to diet. The patient should go from the bath to the bed, and remain well covered for half an hour. Magnetic passes should then be made from the head downwards, over the hands and feet. Drink a tumbler of buttermilk every day. Diet should not

be drawn from either the fruit or animal kingdoms. The various grains, made into puddings, and bread, and porridges, are best. The disease is not dangerous unless it is rapidly developed in the face and head-in which case, no remedy is comparable to human magnetism.

Medicine for a Canker Humor.

Thousands suffer from a depravation of the fluids which are propelled through the lymphatic system of glands and vessels. Nearly all cankerous and scrofulous forms of disease originate, first, in faulty digestion, and, second, in the vitiation of the functions of the lymphatic system. The remedy, in all cases, must be directed primarily to the nutritive functions, and indirectly to the lymphatic vessels throughout the body. The most convenient preparation within our knowledge is this: Scullcap (scutelaria lateriflora,) four ounces; spikenard (aralia racemosa,) six ounces; gentian (triosteum perfoliatum,) two ounces ; cloves, pulverized, one table-spoonful. Put these articles in a jug containing one quart of water and one pound of sugar; cork tight, and let it stand near a fire for three or four days; then add one quart of best brandy, and you have a medicine which will penetrate and vivify the entire lymphatic system. DoseBegin by taking less than a tea-spoonful about two hours after both dinner and tea. Increase a little every day until you can bear a table-spoonful; then add some more brandy and water to the medicine, and white sugar, as in the first instance. Eat and drink whatever suits you best. Arise! be cheerful!

An Intermittent Eruption.

The disease is entirely one of the under skin, appearing and disappearing on different parts of the body, and it is, therefore, absurd to drink blood-purifying syrups as a remedy. The best treatment for a simple incorrigible eruption, is a wash composed of kino, borax, and cream. Of borax take two ounces; two drachms of kino; cover them with one pint of rain-water, for three days; then add half pint fresh cream, and the mixture is ready for application. First give yourself a thorough scratching or chafing, so that the surfaces are as much inflamed as they

ever appear after rubbing them; then apply the mixture thoroughly. The smarting, burning, and inflammatory effects that succeed, will be of short duration, while a healing process will be forthwith inaugurated. Perhaps it will be necessary to repeat this treatment every night for a week or two, but the remedy is quite certain to remove the cause just beneath the skin. This treatment, remember, is adapted to simple eruptions, with inflammatory aspect.

Cause and Cure of Ringworm.

The technical term for this affliction is Nerpes circinatus, but physicians are not agreed as to the cause of this troublesome vesicular eruption. We have carefully observed that the circular patches float upon a transparent fluid; which, indeed, is the cause of the irritation and exfoliation—a saline acid, distilled from a diseased condition of the mucous membrane of the digestive organs.

REMEDY. The pathological base of the ringworm is an erysipelous condition of the fluids and blood. Salt, therefore, must be avoided. Reject all food in which the saline property is prominent. Follow this plan throughout your earthly life; else you will never be free from the evil seeds of erysipelas. This rigid course will strike at the bottom of the ringworm diathesis. Bathe the eruption with half ounce of borax, dissolved in two gills of water, and one do. of cream. Add to this wash about fifty drops of sulphuric acid. Use it twice or thrice per diem.

Use of Sulphur for the Itch.

This affection of the skin has been displaced by the morbid conditions of erysipelas. It is said that "since the improvement in microscopes, the Itch is found to be a living creature. burrowing in the flesh. This was discovered in 1812, by M. Gales, apothecary to the hospital of St. Louis, in Paris. Experi