MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. 247 



TO CURE A FEVER-SORE. 



Take 3 ozs. blue vitriol and 3 ozs. gunpowder. Boil in a quart of 

 soft water until thoroughly dissolved, and reduced to one-half the quan- 

 tity. Pour on to the sore while hot as can be borne. 



Steven Johnson of Gouverneur, N.Y., was cured of a fever-sore on 

 his arm, of the worst character, of a year's standing. Doctors said he 

 must lose his arm, his own words. There was necrosis of the bones 

 of the arm ; sores in three places ; was cured by one application. Mr. 

 Olmsted, of Oxbow, N.Y., had a bad sore below the knee ; went on 

 crutches for six months ; was cured with one application. Several other 

 cases were reported of an equally remarkable character. 



TO CURE AN INDOLENT ULCER. 



A gentleman who had a fever-sore on his leg for seventeen years, had 

 spent five thousand dollars in trying to get the sore cured, and had no 

 hope of having it healed, was cured in three months by the following 

 remedy : 



Take the green scum that gathers on the water in the frog ponds in 

 spring and summer ; boil over a slow fire ; then add fresh butter to 

 the consistence of an ointment. Dress the sore with it once a day. 

 The man claimed to have given it to others who were afflicted with 

 obstinate ulcers, and that it had made perfect cures, and wished, from 

 humanity to others so afflicted, that I would give it an insertion in my 

 book. 



FOR WEAK BACK, RHEUMATISM, AND CRICK IN THE BACK. 



British oil, I oz. ; oil of spike, I oz. ; origanum, I oz. ; camphor, i oz. ; 

 alcohol, i pint. Put the British oil and camphor into the alcohol first ; 

 shake well. T. H. Brown, of Madrid, N.Y., was cured of rheumatism in 

 the leg with this. His mother had a crick in the back ; was entirely dis- 

 abled. A few applications cured her. Accounts of its valuable effects 

 in the cure of other cases were reported. 



THE GREAT TANNING PREPARATION. 

 THIS IS THE GREAT SECRET SOLD A FEW YEARS AGO for tanning 



all kinds of skins with the hair on. The secret and right to use it were 

 sold through the country at large prices. 



To two pails of water add 2 Ibs. alum ; 2 quarts salt ; 2 Ibs. Epsom 

 salts ; 2 oz. oil vitriol. Wet and scrape the meat and oil out ; then put 

 the skins into the liquid and let stand from eighteen to twenty-four 

 hours. 



REMARKABLE CURE. 



The following is a case of remarkable cure of bruise of thigh, from 

 the use of hot salt. 



H. D. Johnson of Pottsdam, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., fell from a build- 

 ing, twelve feet, upon a pile of wood, injuring him seriously in different 

 parts of the body the thigh very seriously bruised, causing him to 

 faint away. He had a stiff leg for a month, the part swollen from the 

 hip to the foot to twice its size, was treated with cold water by advice 



