TREATMENT OF DISEASES. % 



10. Salve, or Ointment, Green, for Old Sores, Ulcers, Can- 

 cers, etc. — Rosin and beeswax, each 1 oz. ; mutton tallow or lard, 4 ozs.; 

 pulverized verdigris, 1 dr. Directions— Melt the two first together and stlF 

 in the verdigris, stirring till cold. Dress the sores, ulcers or wounds, above 

 named, morning and evening, after cleaning them properly with castile soap, 

 if necessary, and apply a mixture of equal parts of tinctures of myrrh, aloes 

 and blood-root. And 'if any fungus (proud flesh), sprinkle on powdered blood- 

 root or finely pulverized burned alum, then the salve, or more properly, the 

 ointment. 



Remarks.— Dr. Gunn thinks this a very valuable treatment, especially for 

 old or long standing ulcers. 



11. Salve or Poultice, Robinson's, for Sores, Inflammation, 

 etc. — Scrape plenty of raw potatoes and thicken it with finely pulverized char- 

 coal. Apply freely to the sore, or inflamed part, and renew as often as it 

 becomes dry, or once in 3 or 4 hours. 



Remarks. — It cured a boy's leg which had been injured in such a way 

 as to cause a large sore and extensive swelling, becoming so bad the doc- 

 tors expected amputation would be necessary; but a neighbor recommended this 

 salve, or poultice, which cured and saved the leg. Then it will do it for others 

 too. 



11. A flaxseed poultice thickened with pulverized charcoal will prevent 

 the spreading, or extension, of mortification, separating the mortified parts 

 from the healthy, at least it did this once on my own person, when only a boy, 

 where one of my feet, and some of the toes, had been badly crushed by a 

 threshing machine and mortification set in. Fail not to try one or the other, 

 as occasion may demand. 



12. Pumpkin Poultice for Painful Inflammations, Swell- 

 ings, etc. — A concsi)()iKlcut of the New York Farmers' Club, published in 

 X\\(i American Agriculturist, gives an instance in which a woman's aim was 

 swollen to an enormous size and painfully inflamed. A poultice was made of 

 stewed pumpkins, which was renewed every 15 minutes, and in a short time 

 produced a perfect cure. The fever drawn out by the poultices made them 

 extremely offensive as they were taken off. 



Remarks. — In such cases after the inflammation is reduced by the poultices 

 some good, mild liniment, like Mrs. Chase's, should be applied from time to 

 time, for the purpose of strengthening, healing, etc. 



13. Salve and Other Treatment— For Quinsy and Gathered 

 Breast. — I. Obtain oil of spike, sweet-oil, British oil and spirits of turpen- 

 tine, each 1 oz. Put lard, 1 pt., over the fire in a suitable dish, and burn or heat 

 it till it is a brown color, then remove from the fire, and, when cool enough 

 to allow the finger in it, add the oils and mix well. 



II Take oats, 1 gal., and put in a kettle, with vinegar to cover, and boil; 

 then fill two woolen stockings with the boiled oats, and sew up, and keep steam- 

 ing hot, or as hot as can be borne, upon the neck; now grease the throat thor- 

 ©ughly with the salve, and apply one of the stockings to drive in the salve. 



