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day has a good record. Try it when the pain is great. Dr. 
Fox tells of a man who had it for a number of years and was 
cured with 
sl Re Mees} ah secu See ..» Fifteen drops, 
once a day; and cloths saturated and applied to the soles of 
the feet completed the cure soon, although the treatment was 
very severe on him for the first week. 
WHITLOW AND FELON. 
The former of these painful troubles is a small inflamma 
tion, generally at the root of the nail; the latter, the felon, is 
at the covering of the bone. This is sometimes called 
periostitis. Both are exceedingly painful, and are amenable 
to the same treatment. If taken in time they may be aborted 
by keeping the finger soaked in hot water, as hot as can be 
borne, for at least an hour three times a day. One or two 
days will be sufficient. This may save a month or two of 
trouble ; or, as a medical man advises, the ointment of nitrate 
of mercury, applied thickly on a cloth, and kept on three or 
four days. But if it has gone too far for abortion, then apply 
the following :—Salt, a teaspoonful, roast it on a shovel till 
the gas and moisture are out ; mix this with Venice turpentine, 
about the same quantity; put it on, and in two days you will 
find a hole down to the bone. This is rather a painful 
application. A poultice of spotted hemlock is more soothing, 
and also a good cure, Drink freely of the composition 
powder to equalise the circulation, and the alternative pills to 
increase the renewing power of the blood. 
BRIGHT’S DISEASE (ALBUMINARIA.) 
Besides acute inflammation, the kidneys, like the lungs, 
or in fact nearly all the internal organs, are subject to wasting 
disease. In 1827 Richard Bright wrote a book in which 
he set forth the peculiarities of kidney disease, and the 
evidence of their existence in the albumem present in the urine. 
This is the reason why chronic kidney diseases are called by 
his name. At one time it was believed that the presence of 
