1080 KECIPES AND PKESCBIPTIONS. 



PSORIASIS AND ECZEMA. (PARTICULARLY PSORIASIS.) 



Arsenite soda, 5 grains ; powdered extract nux vomica, 4 grains. Make 

 100 pills ; take one after each meal. To insure a cure, should be used from 

 1 to 6 months. 



2. Sulphur and cream tartar, each, 1 oz. ; calcined magnesia, oz ; pow- 

 dered sugar milk, 1 oz. ; powdered anise seed, 3 drachms. Mix. Dose : 1 

 teaspoonful in water night and morning. 



3. TAR OINTMENT. Pure tar, and beef suet, equal parts. Mix the tar 

 with the suet, previously melted with a moderate heat. And having strained 

 the mixture through muslin, stir it constantly while cooling. Apply 2 or 

 3 times daily, rubbing in thoroughly. 



4. Particularly for psoriasis. Caustic potash, 2 drachms ; oil tar, ^ oz. 

 Mix. Apply, externally, one part of the mixture to 4 parts rain-water. 

 After using for 2 weeks, it may be used 1 part to 2 parts rain-water. 



A gentleman who had suffered terribly from psoriasis for years, though 

 under treatment almost constantly by specialists at great expense, was given 

 the above prescription by an eminent specialist, of New York City, which cured 

 him in three months. Knows of its curing a number of bad cases to whom 

 he gave the prescription. Regards it priceless in. value. It is included here 

 with the hope of its helping persons so affected. The treatment given should 

 be regularly followed. 



EYE WASH. 



Take three hen's eggs and break them into a quart of clear cold rain-wa- 

 ter ; stir until a thorough mixture is effected ; boil over a slow fire, stirring 

 every few minutes ; add half an ounce of sulphate of zinc (white vitriol) ; 

 continue the boiling a short time, and the compound is ready for use. In 

 this preparation a solid substance, or curd, is precipitated or thrown down, 

 and a liquid solution rests upon the top. This is the best wash for sore eyes 

 of either man or beast that was ever made. The curd applied to the in- 

 flamed eye at night will draw the fever and soreness nearly all out by morn- 

 ing. After two or three days the water should be strained from the curd, 

 and put into a bottle for future use. This wash is invaluable. When ap- 

 plied to the human eye, it should be diluted. 



A gentleman who had a copy of my old edition, having this remedy in 

 it, informed me that he was offered $10 for the book on account of the value 

 of this recipe, having used it in his neighborhood with great success, and 

 that he would not sell it at any price. 



