51 fasT. 
quack remedies for cancers and cancerous ulcers— 
how used. In hemorrhoids, galls in form of 
ointment useful; other astringents answer the 
same purpose; in indolent ulcers, and the ulcers 
from burns, astringent vegetable infusions, as 
washes. important; astringent gargles, their 
use, efficacy and danger; of alum in diebetes;_ 
Dr. Gregory’s notice of its effect in that disease. 
Selle, Meade and Dover, recommended this astrin- 
gent as a cure for it. Summary of the comparative 
eflicacy of mineral, metallic, and vegetable astrin- 
gents, for the diseases in the foregoing — 
notes, General remarks on the whole cl bo 
notice of other and secondary effects. . 
_ Astringents have been said by Darwin, under 
a his class sorbentia, to create costiveness ; not al- 
