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tobacco moist. "When one wishes to cure a bunion or 

 corn, after the tobacco has been applied as above 

 directed, it is easy to get the sock over it, and by moist- 

 ening the sock from time to time, a cure is usually 

 effected in a single night. 



General Clingman, speaking of cases coming under 

 his own observation, says: "All cases of erysipelas, 

 whether on the head or face, or any other part of the 

 body, are cured. In some cases, where the head was 

 swollen to almost double size, and the patient was sup- 

 posed by the attending physician about to die, an appli- 

 cation of tobacco effected a complete cure. Again, all 

 cases of sore eyes, whether caused by injury or disease, 

 and whether old cases, or fresh ones, have been cured. 

 In some cases, where there was total blindness, a cure 

 was at once effected and the sight restored perfectly. 

 In the third place, all wounds, whether cuts, braises or 

 contusions, have been easily cured. Sprains of the knee 

 or ankle joints, where they were swollen to double the 

 natural size, have been completely cured by a single 

 night's application. Old cases, where the patient has 

 suffered for months and years, have been cured. Cases 

 of sore throat are cured, whether caused by diphtheria, 

 croup, scarlet fever, or quinsy. In more than one 

 instance, the patient was cured when seemingly at the 

 point of death, and the case pronounced hopeless by the 

 attending physician. Bone felons have been cured, 

 usually by a single night's application of the tobacco." 



General Clingman was informed of a number of 

 cases in which the tobacco was applied as a remedy for 

 hemorrhoids, and in every instance a single night's 

 application is represented to have effected a cure. If 

 tobacco should be applied to a wound, neither mortifica- 

 tion nor lockjaw would ever supervene. In one case of 

 lockjaw, where the surgeon had pronounced the case 

 hopeless, according to the public statement of a gentle- 



