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a day. Tip to this point, and until the stomach is able to take oare of so 

 much, is found to be the most trying period in this treatment, but no other 

 medicine is given, and hand and liair-glove rubbing is daily administered. 



Another correspondent takes exception to the claim made that no drug 

 of any therapeutic value in that disease has yet been discovered. In sup- 

 port of his assertion ho sends us a recipe which he claims has effected a 

 cure in Briglit's disease, as well as in dropsy, in every case in which it has 

 been tried during the last fifteen years. He recommends the drinking of 

 an infusion of the dry pods of the common white soup bean or corn bean. 

 When the latter cannot be readily obtained, the pods of the "snap short" 

 bean will answer, and even the Lima bean, though the latler is of inferior 

 strength. The recipe is as follows: "Take a double handful of the pods to 

 three quarts of water; boil slowly for three hours until it is reduced to three 

 pints. Use no drink of any kind but this, the patient drinking as much as 

 he conveniently can; it may bo taken either hot or cold." 



Hot Water as a Remedy — There is no remedy of such general appli- 

 cation and none so easily attainable as water, and yet nine persons in ten 

 will pass by it in an emergency to seek for something of far less efficacy. 



There are but few cases of illness where water should not occupy tho 

 highest place as a remedial agcut. 



. A strip of flannel or a napkm folded lengthwise and dipped in hot water 

 and wrung out and then applied around the neck of a child that has the 

 croup will usually bring relief in ten minutes. 



A towel folded several times and dipped in hot water and quickly wrung 

 and applied over the seat of the pain in toothache or neuralgia will generally 

 afford prompt relief. This treatment in colic works like magic. I have seen 

 cases that have resisted other treatment for hours yield to this in ten min- 

 utes. There is nothing that will so promptly cut short a congestion of tho 

 lungs, sore throat or rheumatism as hot water when applied promptly and 

 thoroughly. 



Pieces of cotton batting dipped in hot water and kept applied to old sores 

 or new cuts, bruises and sprains, is tho treatment now generally adopted in 

 hospitals. I have seen a si^rained ankle cured in an hour by showering it 

 with hot water, poured from a height of three feet. 



Tepid water acts promptly as an emetic, and hot water taken freely half 

 an hour before bedtime is the best of cathartics in the case of constipation, 

 while it has a most soothing eft'ect on the stomach and bowels. Tliis treat- 

 ment continued for a few months, with proper attention to diet, will cure 

 any curable case of dyspepsia. 



To Remove Superfluous Hairs. — Some few hairs will frequently grow 

 where they are not wanted, and are often difficult to get rid of. Close shav- 

 ing and (fitting strengthens them and increases their number; the only plan 

 is to pull them out individually with a pair of tweezers, and afterward to 

 dress the part two or three times a day in the followmg manner: Wash ;t 

 first with warm, soft water, but do not use soap; then apply with a piece of 

 soft rag, immediately after the washing, a lotion of milk of roses, made ac- 

 cording to the following directions, and rub the skin gently till jt is dry with 

 a warm, soft cloth: Beat four ounces of sweet ahnonds in a mortar to a paste 

 with half an ounce of white sugar; then work iu, in small quantities, eiglit 

 ounces ofrosewatcr; strain the enmlsion throug)i muslin, put tho liquid into 

 a bottle, return tlie residuum to the mortar, pouud it again, and add half aa 



