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Podophyllin.........+. tnt, Ate hates One anda half grs. 
Leptandrin ........ sire tgla Sab acd al e's Four grains. 
Cream of Tartar... 6c. ecteeed teas Twenty grains. 
Mix and divide into two powders, and give one every six 
hours ull the bowels move freely. Afterwards keep them open 
with a decoction of the following :— 
BACK TOOt by seh eos pee nas pes One and a quarter ozs. 
Weld: Tanith 1... fad tee or eee Quarter ounce. 
Steep in a pint and a half of boiling water, and give a dessert 
spoonful as many times as may be required. If the stomach 
should be sour, give a teaspoonful of magnesia carb. powdered 
chalk, or carb. soda. If the pain is severe, the parts may be 
steamed over a decoction of boneset. Tansy, wormwood, hops, 
poppy leaves or heads, made as decoctions, usually are 
beneficial. When the inflammation is very great, 
Tincture Chloride of Iron ........... . One drachm. 
Sh (oo TER hc cider te PN PEE eer Fi Sate ke edt A Two drachms. 
Mix and give 25 drops in a wineglassful of the infusion of 
maiden hair and elder flowers As a cooling wash, a 
solution of borax and sugar of Jead ; mix two drachms of each 
in a pint of rain water, and a cloth saturated kept over the 
parts when not broken. If so, a poultice of slippery elm, 
mixed with hop yeast, must be applied. If erysipelas arises 
from wounds, to keep it from spreading paint the edges with 
comp tincture of cayenne and apply the elm poultice. Keep 
the inflamed parts always covered. Where there is a con- 
stitutional tendency to this disease, a patient continuance 
in the blood mixtures recommended above, with attention 
to the general health—avoidance of spirits or any intoxicating 
liquors, and all exciting causes—a permanent cure will almost 
invariably reward the diligent. The reader will find in our 
Matena Medica and compounds many agents which may be 
useful in curing erysipelas. 
SALT RHEUM (Eczema). 
This ; a disease of the skin, not unlike the former in its 
chronic form. Itmay be detected by the following symptoms: 
