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generally before it is all taken. Continue it. Keep the 
perspiration up for six hours, and give the slippery elm gruel. 
As a daily medicine prescribe— 
Weandirake ROGt: «exis ace eters 661040» OERCe: 
Sarsaparilla ROOt. vs sien «52 0's toncees RWI ORNCES, 
Liquorice Root ..... Stinessaca se Sass Cort One ounce. 
Guaiacum Chips... cescesensecvseesess One ounce. 
Marshmallow Root........... Pers One ounce. 
Wezereon Kook 2.55 peatwe sees eas . One ounce. 
CHGS 25 cece ha Bear Bier Eas SCE Oe One drachm. 
Bruise the roots, cover them with two quarts of water, simmer 
down to one, strain, and add a quarter ounce of the extract 
of sarsaparilla; take a wineglassful four times a day. A 
fomentation of bitter herbs, as southernwood, wormwood, and 
marshmallow leaves boiled in two quarts of water 15 minutes. 
A flannel is dipped in this decoction, squeezed out, and laid 
across the kidneys as hot as can be borne; cover up, and renew 
in a few minutes, keeping the decoction hot all the time. 
This must be done for one hour twice a day. Let the food 
be free from fats. Skim milk, lean meat, no sugar nor starchy 
foods. Slippery elm we know to be good, and may be taken in 
the digestive food prepared with the skim milk alone. Keep 
the bowels free with the liver pills. The above is the 
substance of the treatment by two of the leading botanic 
doctors in England who have treated and cured it many times. 
The eciectic treatment, of which we have just received 
an example from a well-known and _ successtul American 
doctor, who gives cases with symptoms andcure. We will 
quote one case in full :— 
Mr. H , aged forty-three, proprietor of an express 
company, a hard worker, in health weighing 180 pounds, 
florid complexion, sanguine temperament, of good family, 
good habits and strictly temperate, consulted me July 1, 1887. 
He had been gradually failing in health and strength for 
several months. More recently he had been failing rapidly, 
had constant aching in the back, with sharp shooting pain in 
