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the face bathed everj'- 2 or 3 hours, and constantly covered with a Knen cloii^ 

 saturated (all it will hold) with the following solution: 



"Hyposulphite of soda, 1 oz.; carbolic acid No. 1, 1 oz. ; distilled water 

 (soft water will do), 8 ozs. Mix. 



" This allays, most promptly, the burning and itching of the skin and face, 

 and is in no wise disagreeable. 



" This treatment, I have always found, to arrest the erysipelas almost at 

 once, and my patient to be about his room in 4 or 5 days. Jly cases have not 

 only escaped complications of congestion and inflammation of the brain, but of 

 the throat also, and without the use of either iron, quinine or wine; 5 gr. doses 

 of iodide potassium (as above) every hour, has never disappointed me in their 

 action; and long experience has enabled me to declare, in my opinion, the 

 internal use of iodide of potassium, to be a specific (positive cure) for facial 

 erysipelas." 



Remarks. — This will please all who prefer calomel to the other treatment, 

 and the author has confidence in this plan of treatment, as he is not afraid of a 

 small dose of calomel, nor blue ma.ss, if worked off directly as was done ii» 

 this case. 



3. Facial Erysipelas, The Author's Treatment of.— Having 

 been recently called to a case of this kind, I will give my treatr 

 ment of it, as it may help others. It was a young lady of about 18 years of 

 age, in which there was an hereditary tendency to this disease, her grandmother 

 having died of it. I found the left side of the face swollen and inflamed, and. 

 just below the eye the flesh was quite hard and very tender. I had it painted, 

 or wet, at once, with muriated tincture of iron, full strength, and covered witl* 

 a soft cloth, to protect it from the air. This was in the forenoon, and in the even- 

 ing I instructed the same application, and then a poultice of stewed cranberries to 

 be applied, always wetting with the tincture before applying the poultice. 

 I gave her a seidlitz powder at once, to open the bowels, the next morning to 

 be followed with a rounding table-spoonful of epsom salts, and after that, every 

 other day a seidlitz powder and salts, alternately. I gave her 5 drop doses of 

 the tincture of the iron 3 times a day from the first, by dropping it into a spoon 

 and adding water, and telling her to put the spoon past the teeth, so the iron 

 should not stain them, which it does without this precaution. After the first 

 24 hours, as the inflammation began to go down and the hardened spot below 

 the eye to become more soft and natural, I weakened the tincture to be applied 

 with one-third water, keeping up the cranberry poultice nights, until the inflam- 

 mation was cured, reducing the strength of the tincture for application as the 

 case improved, until it was only one-third tincture and two-thirds water; and 

 thus, in one week, she was again able to resume her labors in a candy manu- 

 factory where she was engaged, no ulceration or open sore having occured; the 

 scarf-skin only peeled off from the effect of the iron, poulticing, etc. Let each 

 one. then, affiicted with this disease, suit himself i\& to which plan he wilt 

 adopt, as circumstances seem to demand. 



1 . DIABETES— Valuable Diet for, and Diet to be Avoided. 

 —Experience has shown that the only way to cure diabetes is to change from 

 the ordinary to the following plan of diet: 



