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HOME DOCTOR. 



GLYCERINE LOTION.— For softening 

 the skin of the face and hands, especially 

 during the commencement of cold weath- 

 er, and also for allaying the irritation 

 caused by the razor: Triturate, four and 

 a half grains of cochineal with one and 

 a half fluid ounces of boiling water, add- 

 ed gradually ; then add two and a half 

 fluid ounces of alcohol. Also make an 

 emulsion of eight drops of ottar of roses 

 with thirty grains of gum arabic and eight 

 fluid ounces of water j then add three 

 fluid ounces of glycerine, and ten fluid 

 drachms of quince mucilage. Mix the 

 two liquids. 



GONORRHOEA, Treatment o£— Mr. Mc- 

 Donald recommends the following : Smear 

 a bougie with ointment of the nitrate of 

 silver (nitrate of silver, one drachm ; to 

 lard, one' ounce;) introduce it into the 

 urethra about three inches, and allow it to 

 remain two or three minutes. Two or 

 three applications have been found to 

 cure the disease. 



GONORRHOEA.— Use internally in the 

 acute stage the following : Tincture vera- 

 trum, twenty drops; gelseminum, one 

 ounce ; water, four ounces. Dose, a tea- 

 spoonful every two hours. As an injec- 

 tion, use once or twice daily, as the acute 

 stage is passing away, carbolic acid, ten 

 grains ; tannic acid, fifteen grains ; water 

 four ounces. 



GONORRHOEA, Injection (Ricord's).— 

 Mix fifteen grains each of sulphate of 

 zinc and acetate of lead, with six and a 

 halt ounces rose water. Inject three 

 times a day. 



FLESHWORMS.— These specks, when 

 they exist in any number, are a cause of 

 much unsightliness. They are minute 

 corks, if we may use the term, of coagu- 

 lated lymph, which close the orifices of 

 some of the pores or exhalent vessels of 

 the skin. On the skin immediately ad- 

 jacent to them being pressed with the 

 finger nails, these bits of coagulated 

 lymph will come from it in a vermicular 

 form. They are vulgarly called "flesh- 

 worms," many persons fancying them to 

 be living creatures. These may be got 

 rid of and prevented from returning, by 

 washing with tepid water, by proper fric- 

 tion with a towel, and by the application 

 of a little cold cream. The longer these 

 little piles are permitted to remain in the 

 skin the more firmly they become fixed; 



and after a time, when they lose their 

 moisture they are converted into lo»g 

 bony spines as dense as bristles, and hav- 

 ing much of that character. They are 

 known by the name of spotted achne. 

 With regard to local treatment, the fol- 

 lowing lotions are calculated to be ser- 

 viceable: i. Distilled rose water, i pint; 

 sulphate of zinc, 20 to 60 grains. Mix. 



2. Sulphate of copper, 20 grains; rose- 

 water, 4 ounces; water, 12 ounces. Mix. 



3. Oil of sweet almonds, 1 ounce ; fluid 

 potash, 1 drachm. Shake well together, 

 and then add rose-water, 1 ounce ; pure 

 water 6 ounces. Mix. The mode of 

 using these remedies is to rub the pim- 

 ples for some minutes with a rough tow- 

 el, and then dab them with the lotion. 



4. Wash the face twice a day with warm 

 water, and rub dry with a coarse towel. 

 Then with a soft towel rub in a lotion 

 made of two ounces of white brandy, 

 one ounce of cologne, and one half ounce 

 of liquor potassa. 



FRECKLES, Removal o£ — Freckles, 

 so persistently regular in their annual 

 return, have annoyed the fair sex from 

 time immemorial; and various means 

 have been devised to eradicate them, 

 although thus far with no decidedly sat- 

 isfactory results. The innumerable rem- 

 edies in use for the removal of these 

 vexatious intruders, are either simple and 

 harmless washes, such as parsley or horse- 

 radish water, solutions of borax, etc., or 

 injurious nostrums, consisting principally 

 of lead and mercury salts. 



If the exact cause of freckles were 

 known, a remedy for them might be 

 found. A chemist in Moravia, observing 

 the bleaching effect of mercurial prepara- 

 tions, inferred that the growth of a lo- 

 cal parasitical fungus was the cause of 

 the discoloration of the skin, which ex- 

 tended and ripened its spores in the 

 warmer season. Knowing that sulpho- 

 carbolate of zinc is a deadly enemy to 

 all parasitic vegetation (itselr not being 

 otherwise injurious), he applied this salt 

 for the purpose of removing the freckles. 

 The compound consists of two parts of 

 sulpho-carbolate of zinc, twenty-five parts 

 of distilled glycerine, twenty- five parts 

 of rose-water, and five parts of scented 

 alcohol, and is to be applied twice daily 

 for from half an hour to an hour, then 

 washed off with cold water. Protection 



