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remedy :—Soda bi-carbonate 2 drams, leptandrin 1 dram, 
podophyllin 2 grains; mix well, and divide into 60 powders. 
Take one in water every four hours. 
MEGRIM OR EARACHE. 
An American doctor speaks well of common salt as a 
remedy for the above. It is taken in half to a teaspoonful in 
water when the attack threatens. 
MOTHER’S MARKS. 
A new method for their removal. Paint round the mark 
for half an inch with collodion, then paint the mark with a 
four per cent. solution of corrosive sublimate ; cover this with 
a layer of the collodion, and remove the mark in a week, then 
heal with herbal ointment. 
NEURALGIA. 
In addition to remedy page 394, menthol internally in 
five grain doses three times a day and a solution in chloroform 
painted on the surface over the pain. 
LA GRIPPE OR INFLUENZA. 
This is a new form of disease, having some symptoms 
common to influenza, which it is also called. It seems to 
be a universal disease, said to have originated in China. 
It has appeared in all parts of the earth. The symptoms 
by which it is distinguished are many and variable; 
pain in the muscles and joints, depression, and general 
debility. The remedy which we think will benefit all 
cases is, first, a good course of medicine (see page 255), or if 
difficult and cannot be had, the yarrow cure, page 79. If the 
pains in the muscles are severe take the treatment for 
rheumatism, page 392; when the severer symptoms are 
subdued a tonic of gold thread and composition, page 118. 
When it affects chiefly the chest use the remedies for bron- 
chitis, page 406; or the balm of gilead and yarrow combined 
will cure. While we are writing, this complaint (having more 
of the influenza symptoms) is very severe in Australasia. A 
