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Corns. — (1) For soft corns soak the feet well in hot water before go- 

 ing to bed, then pare down tlie corn, and, after having just moistened it, rub 

 a little lunar caustic on the corn and just around the edge, till it turns light 

 gray. By tho next moruiug it will be black, and when the burnt skin peels 

 off it will leave no vestige of the corn undeinoath. Of course, the com is 

 liable to return, but not for some length ot time. Or, scrape a bit of com- 

 mon chalk, and put a pinch of the powder on the corn at night, binding a 

 piece of linen round. Repeat this for a few days, when the corn will come 

 oif in little scales. 



(2) Take quarter cup of strong vinegar, crumb finely into it some bread. 

 Let stand half an hour, or until it softens into a good poultice. Then apply, 

 on retiring at night. In the morning tho soreness will be gone and the corn 

 can bo picked out. If the corn is a very obstinate one, it may require two 

 or more applications to effect a cure. 



(3) To cure corns, take a lemon, cut a piece of it off, then nick it so as to 

 let in the toe with the corn. Tie this on at night so that it cannot move, 

 and you will lind the next morning that, with a blunt knife, the com will 

 come away to a groat extent. Two or three applications will effect a thor- 

 ough cure. 



(4) For soft corns dip a piece of linen cloth in turpentine and wrap 

 it around the toe on which the corn is situated, night and morning. 

 The relief will be immediate, and, after a few days, tho corn will dis- 

 appear. 



(5) Soft corns can be cured by this com salve: Bod tobacco down to an 

 extract, then mix with it a quantity of white pitch pine, and ajjply it to the 

 corn, renewing it once a week imtil tlia corn disappears. 



(6) Boil a potato in its skin, and after it is boiled take the skin and put 

 tho inside of it to the corn, and leave it on for about twelve hours; at the end 

 of that period the corn will be nearly cured. 



(7) Macerate tho tender leaves of ivy in strong vinegar for eight or ten 

 days, then apply to tho corns by means of cloths or lint satitratcd with the 

 Uquor. In a few days the corns will drop off. 



Liiiiuor Appetite. — (1) Dr. Unger insists that the following remedy will 

 cure the cravings of the worst drunkard in the laud: Take one pound of 

 best, fresh, quill red Peruvian bark, powder it, and soak it in one pint of 

 diluted alcohol. Afterward strain and evaporate it down to half a piut. 

 Directions for its use: Dose— a teaspoonful every three hours the first and 

 second day, and occasionally moisten the tongue between the doses. It acta 

 like quinine, and the patient can tell by a headache if he is getting too nntch. 

 The third day take as previoits, but reduce the dose to one-half teaspoonful. 

 Afterward reduce the dose to fifteen drops, and tlicn down to ten, then down 

 to five drops. To make a cure it takes from five to fifteen days, and in ex- 

 treme cases thirty days. Seven days are about the average in which a cure 

 can be effected. 



(2) At a festival of one of oitr reformatory institutions, a gentleman is re- 

 ported to have said: " I overcame the apijctito for liqttor by a recipe given 

 to me by old Dr. Hatfield, one of those good old physicians who do not have 

 a percentage from a neighboring druggist. The ])rescriptiou is simply an 

 orange every morning half an hour before breakfast. ' Take tliat,' said, the 

 doctor, ' and you will want neither liquor nor medicine.' I have done so 

 regularly, and find that liquor has become repulsive. Tho taste of tho 

 or.ingc is ia tho a.Uiva of my tongue; and it would be as well to mix water 



