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ments were immediately commenced to ascertain the best remedies to destroy so formidable an enemy. It was found that the Itch will live in clear water four hours; in sea water it died in three hours; in Goulard's solution it survived but one hour; in castor, olive, almond and sweet oil, it died in two hours; in croton oil in four hours; in lime-water three-quarters of an hour; in vinegar twenty minutes; in alcohol twenty minutes; in spirits of turpentine nine minutes; in hydridate of potassium six minutes; in solution of arsenic four minutes; in sulphuric acid three minutes; in creosote it died instantly; placed on powdered sulphur it was found dead next day. From all these experiments, it was found that sulphur was the surest and safest remedy." Such is understood to be the history of the discovery that "Brimstone" (of the orthodox stamp,) is useful for the above disgusting eruption. Our impression is distinct that the "living creature" is an effect-not a producing cause-of the cutaneous affection.

Juvenile Excitability and Eruption.

The natural cure for youthful nervous excitability consists in a speedy development of the Nutritive and Muscular temperaments. To begin this work, it will be necessary to keep from the young stomach all exciting drinks and heating diets. No animal matter, no butter after breakfast, no milk after dinner; but plenty of rice, barley, wheat (coarse,) corn, and sometimes rye. Simple puddings or cakes of these grains, with fruit and berries, in their season, constitute a fine diet for the development of young bodies. Much of the nervous activity will depart with the incoming of womanhood.

For the eruption we prescribe a strong wash of burdock (arctium lappa) roots, leaves, and seeds, to be used freely on the irritated surfaces once or twice per week. Many kinds of

prickly eruption can be overcome by a plentiful use of burdock tea externally. When other remedies fail, try this in good faith.

Cure for Prurigo Pruritis.

In papulous eruptions, characterized at first by soft and smooth elevations of the cuticle, the surface-skin becomes diseased. Hence, when not cured in youth, or successfully treated when it makes its appearance, the disease slowly establishes itself in chronic form. It is now exceedingly difficult of management. The most convenient remedy is: Equal parts spirits turpentine, and oil of sassafras, and sweet oil, amalgamated by alcohol. Rub this thoroughly into the skin wherever the symptoms are exceedingly troublesome. If the tingling and stinging is too intense, add a coating of light cream. Dieting will make no difference. Avoid the extravagant use of salt.

A Nervous Rash.

The condition of many is described by a lady patient thus: "I have for about eight years been afflicted with a rash, appearing with great violence, whenever I am warm or excited-causing my head to throb violently, and my face to swell. The spells last usually about ten minutes, and then leave me shivering."

REMEDY.-Get Valerian root, half an ounce; extract of dandelion, one ounce; cayenne pepper, one drachm; cinnamon bark, one tea-spoonful-pound and mix these together; let them tincture in half pint of pure alcohol for ten days, then add one pint of pure water. DosE.-Thirty drops in a wine-glass of water immediately after an attack, or when the "shivering" sensation pervades the nervous system. Eat no salt food. Drink little of any fluid, except when thirsty.

Small White Blisters on Children.

Children afflicted with any form of erysipelas, scratches, white blisters, sores, or scrofulous swellings, should never sleep with each other, never with a healthy child, and certainly never with adult persons. The magnetism of a spaniel, or half-cur dog, is healthful for children so diseased; and it would be beneficial to give a scrofulous child a dog (not a poodle or King Charley,) for a sleeping companion. A fresh cat's skin (minus the cat,) bandaged over the white swelling, or a piece of fresh beef applied every night to a scrofulous tumor or abscess, will effectually dissipate poisonous vapors, and partially restore the conditions of health. Diet and hand magnetism are the next best remedies.

A Virus Developed by a Scratch.

By particular inspection, it became evident, in the case of a young woman, that, in consequence of an unfortunate brier-stab in the superior nerve of her foot, a scrofulous and neuralgic virus had been diffused (rather aroused,) throughout her system. Sometimes it happens that a pin-scratch, or a needle-wound, at first inappreciable, will give rise to years of discord and suffering. You know how small a variation from the tone of the master-key will untune all the cords of the finest and most costly instrument of music-or, how slight an injury done the works of the best-made chronometer-even a grain of sand lodged in the wheels of your watch-will throw the movements out of harmony with the noiseless march of Time. O man! O woman! bow down and worship the Divine Wisdom-the great, beautiful, gracefully operative Principles of the Universe -from whose loving bosom proceeded the "fearful and wonderful" dynamics of individual existence.

The best remedial course to over-reach and remove the

nerve-virus will be: A thorough steam bath once or twice a week, about middle of the day. Food, for that day, gruel or porridge. Occasionally bathe the locality of the wound, and all the implicated parts of the limb, with a weak solution of ammonia, and a little chloroform. Use no salted nourishment, but take regular out-door exercise.

Cure for Itch and Tetter.

We have received upwards of one hundred applications from persons suffering with various eruptive diseases—Itch, tetter, rash, barbers' itch, salt rheum, &c. REMEDY IN GENERAL.Eat nothing in the shape of swine's flesh; abandon all salt foods and black pepper; soups are good, but gravies injurious; eat no butter after breakfast; drink plentifully of buttermilk; and cautiously bathe the affected parts with the following: Olive oil, half pint; oil of spearmint, two ounces; crude oil of turpentine, one tea-spoonful; hartshorn, ten grains; stir these into the well-amalgamated whites of six eggs. Always shake before applying it to the irritated skin.

Pityriasis, or Red and Rough Eruption.

The skin is at first only red and rough, but soon becomes branlike, or meally and scurfy. After the scales repeatedly form and separate, the exfoliations become rapid and troublesome. REMEDY.-Take equal parts of Witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica,) and butternut bark (Juglans Cineria); boil them with fresh lard down to the consistency of an ointment. Use it once a day. Eat plenty of tomatoes; no animal food; and abstain from salt.

Cause and Cure of Freckles.

Scientific investigators have given the term ephelis as a name for freckles, and very properly, we think, because it is clear to

a demonstration, that (as the term implies,) the direct rays of the sun produce freckles, large brown patches, and other dusky blemishes, which appear on the face of persons of certain temperaments, who are not in perfect health. In a peculiar manner the skin is oxydized in spots, and these spots are freckles, or ephelis, as the ancients judiciously named them. The remedy will be found in phosphorus and acetic acid. Twelve grains of phosphorus in one ounce of the acid. First dissolve the phosphorus in as little olive oil as is necessary, then add the acetic acid. Keep this preparation tightly corked. First give the skin a slight coating of milk, then apply the preparation. Great care is needed, in making the application, not to get any in the mouth or eyes. Immediate exposure to the sun would prove unfavorable. One application a day is sufficient.

Worms Under the Skin.

Flavius, a student, writes: "For a year I have felt a prickling, burning, very disagreeable, and often painful sensation, a little above the outer extremity of the right eyebrow, thence upwards to the hair. Continued and difficult study makes it worse; sometimes, however, it becomes worse without any apparent cause, often resulting in a breaking out at the upper part of the affected regi

CAUSE. A diseased action or obstruction, whereby are gen. erated the depraved elements of the scabies vernicularis, but the healthiness of the system, and the activity of the nerves in that region, will prevent any formation except something in the shape of a sore, if allowed to proceed. REMEDY.-Bind on fine salt moistened with spirits of turpentine. Use the electromagnetic battery a few times.

Chapped Face, Hands, and Lips.

Druggists will charge from twenty-five to fifty cents for a "camphorated" preparation, which the reader may provide for

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