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INDEX, 
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SKIN DISEASES, Etc., contd. 
Mushrooms, for vesicular 
eruptions - - 469-501 
Nettle tea, eck nettle 
rash - - - 380 
Nutmeg, for freckles (and in 
toxic quantities will pro- 
duce them) - - - 506 
Oatmeal, apt to irritate a 
thin, sensitive skin, when 
taken at meals - - - 510 
Parsnip water, a cosmetic - 551 
Pimpernel (Burnet, or pot- 
erium sanguisorba) in a 
salad, for erysipelas - - 229 
Pine apple juice, apply to 
leprous eruptions - - 569 
Potato, in salad, remedial by 
alkaline juices, dietetically 
has expelled leprosy - - 576 
Puff ball (mushroom) powder 
for “‘grocer’s itch” and 
pimples” - - - 499, 500 
Pulses, the (beans, peas, 
etc., cooked, as containing 
sulphur) conduce to a fair 
skin - - 556-558 
Quince, mucilage of seeds 
for skin irritations, apply 449 
Rabbit, and Hare, taken as 
food, apt to cause nettle- 
rash - - - 322 
Radish, for pustular erup- 
tions, by its sulphur 593, 594 
Rhubarb, garden, may pro- 
voke nettle-rash, or rose- 
rash, by its oxalic acid 
salts - - - - 390 
Rosemary oil, and _ spirit 
383, 386 
Rue (a cosmetic) - - 392 
Seaweeds, as advised for 
scurvy, — - - - 627-633 
Snail-shell water, for chaps 
and cracks of Shinde or 
toes - 
Spinach water, a capital 
cosmetic - 650 
Strawberry, woodland 
Sugar, a ers cat — 
a fair skin - 
Swan, cygnet, as food, to 
_ impart a ruddy eqn 
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Tar, in gravy, for eruptions, 
or in ointment for eczema 
(if dry) - - < - 94 
-Tar water, take for gout. 
Thyme, and thymol, for 
leprous giisisiaanee and 
ringworm - - 397 
Tobacco, sedative (when 
smoked) to irritable erup- 
tions on skin - - : 
Turnip juice - - - 704 
Veal, when eaten, will 
frequently be followed by 
nettle-rash - - 471 
Violet, wild (pansy tea of) 
against scald head in 
children - - - - 689 
Walnut leaves, against 
scrofulous eraphions and 
sores 503, 720 
Whole meal ‘bread, for ring- 
worm - - - 116, 123 
SLEEPLESSNESS, against. 
Absinthe liqueur, will soothe 
spine - «116 
Abstain from sleeping after 
dinner, if dyspeptic, or if 
restless at night. 
Alcohol, usually a mistake 
when given to induce sleep, 
because causing fulness of 
blood-vessels about the 
brain - - 20, 30, 735 
Ale, bitter, hypaetic by its 
hop - 32, 91 
Anise, for dyspeptic restless. 
ness 48, 49 
Ants, the formic acid of - 417 
Asparagus, as an evening 
meal, promotes sleep at 
night - - - - 64 
Beans, as food - - ~ BT 
Beer, lager - - - - 91 
Brain, to rest, especially 
towards night, and not to 
overtax - - - - 640 
Butter-milk (in Bright’s 
disease of kidneys) - - 482 
Carrots, as a t supper, A 
promote refreshi aa 142 
Cloves, for eyenepie w ae 
_fulmess” - - “180-182, BA 
