60 DR CHASE'S RECIPES. 



needed to keep down the acidity. See " Dyspepsia, Milk and Lime Water, 

 Cure for." Lime water can often be borne by patients who cannot take th» 

 salts of soda, or potash. This also proves its value and adaptation to the human 

 system. 



2. Boils— To Relieve the Pain of and to Scatter.— The pain of 

 boils, it is said, can be relieved very much by frequently applying castor-oil on 

 the parts. 



Painting a boil with tincture of iodine, it is also claimed, scatters them; 

 but I prefer to scatter them by frequently applying a strong liniment. I have 

 recently scattered two from my own neck in this way. I used Dr. Chase's 

 golden oil, or strong camphor liniment; I think I applied it at least fifteen differ- 

 ent times in the day, rubbing over the boil hard and long at each application, 

 which scattered it, and is doing so again, at this writing, so that I see they are 

 in the system, and I have therefore made 1 qt. of the lime water (1 oz. stone 

 lime to 1 qt.), and am going to use it, expecting I shall thus cleanse the blood 

 and eradicate them — the boils from the system or blood. It did do it, as I have 

 not had any more, or any indications of them, now over four months, after 

 writing the above. 



3. Boils, Alterative Syrup for.— Blue flag and black cohosh root, 

 each 1 oz. ; yellow dock root and the bark of the root of bitter-sweet, Peruvian 

 bark, the bark of the root of sassafras and prickly ash berries, each J^oz.; 

 pyrophosphate of iron, 2% drs. ; whiskey, J^ pt. ; glycerine, 6 ozs. ; water, 13 

 ozs. Directions. — The barks, roots and berries are to be coarsely ground, or 

 bruised, then steeped in water in a covered dish, to leave, when strained, 1 pt.; 

 then add the glycerine, whiskey and pyrophosphate of iron. DosB — A tea- 

 spoonful 4 times daily, at meals and at bed-time. 



Remarks. — This is not only a valuable alterative in boils, but to follow the 

 treatment of inflammations, after the acute stages have been overcome by cool- 

 ing purgatives, such as salts, seidlitz powder or cream of tartar, attention to the 

 skin, etc., especially so if there is a scrofulous tendency, or considerable debil- 

 ity, shown by the loss of strength, flesh, etc. 



1. MILK IN DIARRHEA, DYSENTERY, INCIPIENT 

 CHOLERA, TYPHOID FEVER, ETC.— Considerable has lately been 

 said in medical journals concerning the value of milk as a remedial agent in 

 certain diseases. An interesting article upon this subject lately appeared in the 

 London Milk Journal, in which it is stated, on the authority of Dr. Benjamin 

 Clark, that in the East Indies warm milk is used to a great extent as a specific 

 for Diarrhea. 



I. For Diarrhea. — A pint every 4 hours will check the most violent di- 

 arrhea, stomach-ache, incipient cholera and dysentery. The milk should never 

 be boiled, but only heated sufficient to be agreeably warm, not too hot to drink. 

 [The author would say 140° Fah. is as hot as one can take it comfortably with 

 a tea-spoon.] Milk which has been boiled is unfit for use. He continues: It 

 has never failed in curing in from 6 to 12 hours, and I have tried it, I should 

 think, fifty times. I have also given It to a dying man who had been subject 



