504 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR. 
Melbourne doctor claims that he has discovered a specific, which 
is, small doses of the perchloride of mercury or corrosive 
sublimate, the 30th to the 50th of a grain dose distilled in water. 
As this is a very dangerous drug, and distilling is not generally 
done in private houses, it would be advisable to get this 
remedy put up at a chemist’s. It seems that this infectious 
trouble is caused by climatic influence and will generally run 
its short course. All that can be done is to assist nature to 
throw it off. This we are certain the botanic medicine we 
have given will do. Use composition powder asa preventative. 
PILES. 
There are many remedies for this painful affection. In 
addition to treatment, page 379, the following may be tried : 
Gum frankincense. Puta few embers in a chamber-pot or other 
vessel, sprinkle a few pieces of the gum on the red embers, and 
sit over the vessel so as to get the smoke on to the piles, 
for 10 or 15 minutes night and morning, or at night 
alone. This remedy is highly spoken of. Another simple 
cure 1s to spread some fat on a piece of brass till it is green, 
then apply night and morning. Our own pile ointment and 
powder have wrought many cures. 
PLEURISY. 
Ten grains muriate of ammonia, every two hours in a wine- 
glass of water. Infusion of pleurisy root is a more effective 
remedy than the water. 
PNEUMONIA OR INFLAMMATION UF THE LUNGS, 
One ounce powdered pleurisy root infused in a pint of 
boiling water. One tablespoonful of the clear infusion with 
10 drops of the compound tincture of myrrh every 15 minutes 
is a treatment that cannot be surpassed. Few will suffer long 
under it. Compound tincture of myrrh is given on page 185. 
PARALYSIS. 
Paralysis, when accompanied with wasting of the muscles, 
caused by a want of phosphorus in the system, was cured by 
