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

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 overocme by a plentiful use of burdock tea externally. When other remedies fail, try this in good failit.

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" ensation pervades the nervous system. Eat no salt fool 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