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managed to effect a cure by the application of ointment. 

 Nor should I neglect to mention that ophthalmia was 

 common to both sexes. The latter I treated with a 

 solution of nitrate of silver, and always found it an 

 effectual remedy. But they were most troublesome 

 patients to advise. I would spend half an hour tying 

 up a man's leg, and in an hour after find him careering 

 over the velt, after a wounded quagga or eland, like a 

 mad creature. 



As a matter of course, I have no right to prescribe, 

 for I am not a doctor, but I treated my patients as I 

 would myself under the circumstances, and always found 

 that I relieved those who had come to me to seek my 

 aid. 1 do not refuse to admit the skill of many of our 

 physicians, but if there is a profession in which there is 

 an enormous amount of humbug, it is in the medical. 



A capital recipe Mr. Mackenzie gave me, to be used 

 especially when the water was bad, was to mix a small 

 quantity of Epsom salts with it. I followed the advice, 

 and found great benefit from it. 



