286 DR CHASEP a RECIPES. 



INGROWING- TOE NAILS.— Those who have been afflicted with 

 this affection have often found it to be very troublesome and painful, at least 

 I have found it to be so myself. The edges or sides of the nail are disposed 

 to turn down and grow into the flesh, giving rise to inflammation, ulceration, 

 and often great pain and suffering. 



For this difficulty the best remedy I have ever known is U9 scrape with 

 some sharp-pointed instrument, as the point of a pen-knife, a sort of groove 

 or gutter in the center of the nail, lengthwise from the root to the end. It 

 should be scraped down to near the quick, or as thin as it can be borne. This 

 makes the nail weak, so that it will gradually and ultimately turn up at the 

 sides until the edges come above and over the flesh. Keep up this practice as 

 fast as the nail grows out and grows thicker, and you will eventually succeed 

 in getting the nail in its proper shape and position. It is a good idea to 

 poultice if there is much inflammation, and also apply healing salve. If ulcera- 

 tion, bathe the parts occasionally with tinctures aloes, myrrh, and opium, 

 mixed in equal parts. 



1 . FEVER-SORES.— One lb. fresh lard, % lb. red lead, 1 table-spoonful 

 soft water; put in an iron dish and cook until it turns to quite a dark brown; 

 stir most of the time while cooking, and watch to keep it from running over; 

 apply it, spread on a cloth, change twice a day. 



2. The following has cured some very severe cases of fever sores, and is 

 good for cuts and bruises in man or beast Take a quantity of the bark of 

 sumac root and boil for two hours; strain and add fresh lard to the liquid, 

 then boil down until the water is all out; anoint the sore three times a day. 



Remarks. — This salve cured a sore on a son of G. W. Childs, of Petoskey, 

 Mich., from which pieces of bone had been taken. They had tried several 

 things but all but this failed. Uncle Chancy Howard, Chardon, Ohio, cured 

 a fever-sore of long standing, and up to the time of his death, some ten years ago, 

 it had never bothered him. The above is also good for chilblains and ulcers. 



CHOLERA. — Treatment. — There is one important precaution which 

 ought to be observed at all times, but more particularly during the epidemic of 

 cholera: the perfect purity of the drinking water should be ascertained, and its 

 freedom from all decomposing organic matters made certain. 



Care is also to be observed not to take active purgatives, especially salines, 

 such as Epsom or Rochelle salts, seidlitz powders, etc., which produce watery 

 evacuations; if aperient medicine is required, it ought to be of a warm char- 

 acter, such as magnesia and rhubarb, with some aromatic, (cinnamon or 

 allspice), for whatever produces free action of the bowels apparently increases 

 the susceptibility to attack. For this reason, too, tJie slightest tendency to diar- 

 rhcea should at once be arrested by a dose of paregoric or laudanum, or what is 

 preferable, a mixture of prepared chalk, 1 table-spoonful; cinnamon or allspice 

 powdered, 1 table-spoonful; white sugar and flour, 1 table-spoonful each, water, 

 1 wine-glassful ; paregoric, 2 table-spoonfuls; Cayenne pepper, % tea-spoonful. 

 Mix, and take a tea-spoonful every half hour, or as may be needed, and the use 

 of n-.ill? and farinaceous preparations (corn starch, farina, flour, etc.,) contain- 



