432 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR. 
dock roots, wash them well, boil themtill soft, pour off the water, 
wash with it as hot as can be borne; fill the cavities, let it 
remain there two minutes, then peel the skin off the roots; 
mash, then lay them on fine gauze; dip a linen cloth in the 
decoction, and lay on the gauze ; repeat this every eight hours, 
night and day ; drink also a wineglassful of the decoction, with 
quarter a wineglass of wine, sweetened with honey, three 
times a day. Another remedy is to wash three times a day in 
a solution of borax (as much as the water will take up), then 
dust in bismuth powder; take internally wineglass doses of 
decoction of blue-flag root. Another :—Chromic acid, froma 
six to a ten per cent. solution, painted on three times daily. 
Dr. Fox applies the tincture of blood-root, blue flag, and sweet 
clover; lay on saturated cloths, renewing often every two or 
three hours. If the system is low, he recommends a blood 
tonic mixture, thus : : 
Quassia and Dock Root,each ........ One ounce. 
Cai Welk G17. bot ss. edt ah sh oa One ounce. 
BitLarsweeke, fsies esas anda One ounce. 
PESEIMMOUY nad BS OORT vets Vee see Seok es One ounce. 
Put in two quarts; boil down to three pints, then add a tea- 
spoonful of cayenne and two ounces of decoction of red Jamaica 
sarsaparilla. Take a wineglassful three times a day and a 
poultice of spotted hemlock leaves on the cancer. If it is 
smelling badly, a poultice of yeast, elm, and charcoal, or elm, 
blood-root, and lobelia, in powder. Now some of our readers, 
who are the victims or their friends, may say, Which 
shallwetry first ? We reply, If needful, try them all, the simplest 
first. Ifthe cancer is in the stomach, take the dock tea, a 
wineglassful, and the three tinctures, in half teaspoonful doses ; 
if in the womb, inject the dock decoction and, if possible, the 
blood-root, and zinc, paste, or paint with the chromic acid. 
Where life is involved, do not mind the trouble. 
WHITE SWELLING. 
This is an affection usually of the knee joints. In its 
mildest form it is called housemaid’s knee, the result of much 
