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and going to bed as you can. Live 4 to 6 hours daily in the open air, riding or 

 Tralking. Bathe frequently, and every night on going to bed rub the skin all 

 over -with a hair glove. [There are two kinds of hair gloves, the English and 

 American, usually kept by di-uggists. The English are the best, being more 

 durable.] In less than a week you will get along with one handkerchief daily. 

 To cure even bad cases you have only to make your stomach digest well — 

 only to make yourself healthier — and your nose will quickly find it out and 

 adapt itself to the better manners of its companions." 



Remarks. — Dr. Lewis claims, and the above treatment indicates, this dis- 

 ease to be constitutional, and, therefore, he works upon the constitution alter* 

 atively through the digestion, which, not directly but impliedly, forbids tea, 

 coffee and all pastry; but while he leaves the substantials, we may well allow 

 him to cut off, as he does, all hurtful superfluities. It has only to be tried 

 faithfully to satisfy the most incredulous of its value. It will prove equally 

 valuable in consumption, salt-rheum, discharges from the ears, fever-sores, etc., 

 etc., as he claims them all to be constitutional rather than simply local, as has 

 been generally believed. Certainly this common-sense plan of eating and care 

 of the person will do great good in these and all chronic diseases; and it would 

 be wise for everybody to use much less of the superfluities and confine them- 

 selves to the simple necessaries in the line of food, if health and consequent 

 long life is worthy of consideration. It will not be possible for those living in 

 the country to always have fresh steak or roast beef, but they must confine 

 themselves to the substantials, and let cake, pie and puddings alone, if they 

 hope to get rid of long-standing disease. And I will only add here that in any 

 chronic, i. e., long-standing, disease, the salt-water washings (which see) should 

 be resorted to, with the dry rubbings, as there directed. 



2. Catarrh Snuff. — Pulverized borax, 1 oz. ; loaf-sugar, pulverized, J^ 

 dr. Mix thoroughly, and take 6 to 10 pinches daily. 



Remarks. — It may be used in connection with any other treatment, and will 

 be found especially valuable in all recent cases, and has cured many chronic, or 

 long-standing cases, without other aids Still it is always best to use general 

 treatment in connection with it. If the throat is at all sore at the same time 

 you take a pinch of the snuff, it will be found valuable to take another pinch 

 and drop it into the fauces, or back part of the throat. It helps the cure mate^ 

 rially. 



3. Catarrh, Ointment for. — Pure tar, }4 oz. ; freshly made, unsalted 

 butter, 1 oz. , or 1 oz. to 4 if it is thought that much will be needed. Simmer 

 together and apply inside the nostrils from 3 to 6 times a day, as the case seems 

 to require. This is claimed to be very valuable, keeping the membrane moist 

 as well as being curative in itself. 



EPIIjEPSY— Of Long Standing— German Cure for.— Accord- 

 ing to Kunze, we possess in Curare a remedy by which cases of epilepsy ol 

 very long standing can be cured. He uses a solution of ^ grs. of Curare in 1 

 dr. and 15 minims of water, to which 2 drops of hydrochloric acid ha.v<' keen 

 added. At intervals of about a week he injects 8 drops of this solutir* «"!> 



