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but will remove tan, or sun-burn, and also freckles, by frequent applications. 

 For freckles, however, I should add 3^ to 1 dr. of powdered borax, which will 

 not injure it for the other purposes. (See moles, freckles, pimples, etc.) 



1. AUSTRALIAN TREATMENT OP RUNNING OR OLD 

 SORES. — Wash them in brandy and apply elder leaves, changing twice a 

 day. This will dry up all the sores, though the legs were like a honey-comb. 

 Or, poultice them with rotten apples, but take also a purge once or twice every 

 week. 



1. WHITLOW.— New Zealand Remedy for.— The severity of the 

 inflammation in whitlow varies considerably; there is the mild form, which 

 generally yields to fomentation with hot water cloths or poultices; and if mat- 

 ter forms, if relieved by the lancet, it speedily heals; but there is a much more 

 formidable affection, in which the deep textures of the finger are involved 

 accompanied by severe pain, throbbing, and much redness, heat and swelling. 

 This form is only to be relieved by free and early incisions with the lancet; for 

 if this be neglected, the bones will become affected and will be destroyed. It 

 would therefore be advisable to submit the finger to the inspection of a surgeon 

 when it does not easily yield to fomentations or a poultice. (Note— The above 

 most excellent remedies were sent the publishers in March, 1901.) 



1. NERVOUSNESS AND SLEEPLESSNESS. - New and 

 Successful Remedy.— Wm. A, Hammond, M. D., states that he has 

 recently used the bromide of calcium (lime, from the Latin calx, lime), in a 

 number of cases in which the bromides were indicated, and is satisfied of its 

 great efficacy. He says: 



" The dose is from 15 to 30 grs. or more for an adult. It is especially use- 

 ful in those cases in which speedy action is desirable, as, owing to its instability, 

 the bromine is readily set free, and its peculiar action on the organism obtained 

 more promptly than when either of the other bromides is administered. Cliief 

 among these effects is its hypnotic (sleep producing) influence, and hence the 

 bromide of calcium is particularly beneficial in cases of delirium tremens, or 

 in the insomnia (inability to sleep) resulting from intense mental labor or excite- 

 ment. 



"I gave a single dose of 30 grains of this to a gentleman, who, owing to 

 business anxieties, had not slept for several nights, and who was in a state of great 

 excitement. He soon fell into a sound sleep, which lasted for 7 hours. The 

 next night, a,s he was wakeful, I gave him a like dose of bromide of potassium, 

 but it was without effect, and he remained awake the whole night. The sul> 

 sequent night he was as indisposed to sleep as he had ever been, but a dose of 

 30 grains of_ bromide of calcium gave him 8 hours sound sleep, and he awoke 

 refreshed with all unpleasant cerebral (head) symptoms — pain, vertigo, and con- 

 fusion of ideas — entirely gone. 



" In a number of other instances a single dose has sufficed to induce sleep 

 — a result which very rarely follows the administration of one dose of any of 

 the other bromides. [Then, of course, it is better than the others, as formerly 

 used.] 



"In those exhausted conditions of the nervous system attended with great 

 irritability, such as are frequently met with in hysterical women, and which 

 are indicated by headache, vertigo, insomnia and a mental condition of extreme 

 excitement, bromide of calcium has proved in my hands of decided service. 

 Combined with the syrup of the lacto-phosphate (milky phosphate) of lime, it 

 scarcely leaves anything to be desired. An eligible formula is: Bromide of cal- 

 cium (lime), 1 oz.; syrup of lacto-phosphate of lime, 4 ozs.; mix. Dose — A 

 tea-spoonful 3 times a day in a little water. 



