2. DOCTOR MITCHEL's BALSAM, for CUTS, BRUISES, &C. Fenugreek Seed, and Gum

2. DOCTOR MITCHEL'S BALSAM, FOR CUTS, BRUISES, &C.--Fenugreek seed, and gum myrrh, of each 1 oz.; sassafras rootbark, a good handful; alcohol 1 qt. Put all into a bottle, and keep warm for 5 days.

Dr. Mitchel, of Pa., during his life, made great use of this balsam, for cuts, bruises, abrasions, &c., and it will be found valuable for such purposes.

ARTIFICIAL SKIN--FOR BURNS, BRUISES, ABRASIONS, &C. PROOF AGAINST WATER.--Take gun cotton and Venice turpentine, equal parts of each,and dissolve them in 20 times as much sulphuric ether, dissolving the cotton first, then adding the turpentine; keep it corked tightly.

The object of the turpentine is to prevent pressure or pinching caused by evaporation of the ether when applied to a bruised surface. Water does not affect it, hence its value for cracked nipples, chapped hands, surface bruises, etc., etc.

DISCUTIENTS--TO SCATTER SWELLINGS.--Tobacco and cicuta (water hemlock) leaves, of each 2 ozs.; stramonium, (jimpsom) and solanum nigrum (garden night shade, sometimes erroneously called <emph rend="italic">deadly</emph> night shade,) the leaves, and yellow dock root, of each 4 ozs.; bitter-sweet, bark of the root, 3 ozs. Extract the strength by boiling with water, pressing out, and re-boiling, straining and carefully boiling down to the consistence of an ointment, then add lard 18 ozs., and simmer together.

It will be used for stiff joints, sprains, bruises attended with swelling when the skin is unbroken, for cancerous lumps, scrofulous swellings, white swellings, rheumatic swellings, &c. It is one of the best discutients, or scatterers in use, keeping cancers back, often for months.

SMALL POX--TO PREVENT PITTING THE FACE.--A great discovery is reported to have recently been made by a Surgeon of the English army in China, to prevent pitting or marking of the face. The mode of treatment is as follows:

When, in small pox, the preceding fever is at its height, and just before the eruption appears, the chest is thoroughly rubbed with Croton Oil and Tartaremetic Ointment. This causes the whole of the eruption to appear on that part of the body to the relief of the rest. It also secures a full and complete eruption, and thus prevents the disease from attacking the internal organs. This is said to be now the established mode of treatment in the English army in China, by general orders, and is regarded as perfectly effectual.

It is a well known fact, that disease is most likely to make its attack upon the weakest parts, and especially upon places in the system which have been recently weakened by previous disease; hence, if an eruption (disease) is caused by the application of croton oil mixed with a little of the Tartaremetic Ointment, there is every reason to believe that the eruption, in Small Pox, will locate upon that part instead of the face. The application should be made upon the breast, fore part of the thighs, &c., not to interfere with the posture upon the bed.

It has been suggested that a similar application will relieve whooping-cough, by drawing the irritation from the lungs; if so, why will it not help to keep measles to the surface, especially when they have a tendency to the internal organs, called, striking in. It is worth a trial, in any of these cases. See "Causes of Inflammation," under the head of "Inflammation."

2. COMMON SWELLINGS, TO REDUCE.--Tory-weed pounded so as to mash it thoroughly and bound upon any common swelling, will very soon reduce the parts to their natural size.

This weed may be known from its annoyance to sheep raisers, as it furnishes a small burr having a dent on one side of it. There are two species of it, but the burr of the other kind has no dent--is round. It will be found very valuable in rheumatisms attended with swellings.

WENS--TO CURE.--Dissolve copperas in water to make it very strong; now take a pin, needle, or sharp knife and prick, or cut the wen in about a dozen places, just sufficient to cause it to bleed; then wet it thoroughly with the copperas water, once daily.

This, followed for four weeks, cured a man residing within four miles of this city, who had six or eight of them, some of them on the head as large as a hen's egg. The preparation is also valuable, as a wash, in erysipelas.

BLEEDINGS--INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL--STYPTIC BALSAM--For internal hemorrhage, or bleeding from the lungs, stomach, nose, and in excessive menstruation or bleeding from the womb, is made as follows:

Put sulphuric acid 2 1/2 drs. by weight, in a Wedgewood mortar and slowly add <emph rend="italic">oil</emph> of turpentine 1 fluid dr., stirring it constantly with the pestle; then add, slowly again, alcohol 1 fluid dr., and

continue to stir as long as any fumes arise from the mixture, then bottle in glass, ground stoppered, bottles. It should be a clear red color, like dark blood, but if made of poor materials it will be a pale, dirty red, and unfit for use. DOSE--To be given by putting 40 drops into a tea-cup and rubbing it thoroughly with a tea-spoon of brown sugar, and then stir in water until the cup is nearly full, and drink immediately--repeat every hour for 3 or 4 hours, but its use should be discontinued as soon as no more fresh blood appears. Age does not injure it, but a skim forms on the top which is to be broken through, using the medicine below it.

This preparation was used for thirty years, with uniform success, by Dr. Jas. Warren, before he gave it to the public; since then, Dr. King, of Cincinnati, author of the Ecclectic Dispensatory, has spread it, through that work, and many lives have been saved by it. It acts by lessening the force of the circulation (sedative power,) as also by its astringent effects in contact with the bleeding vessels. And the probability is that no known remedy can be as safely depended upon for more speedy relief, or certainty of cure, especially for the lungs, stomach, or nose; but for bleedings from the womb, or excessive menstruation, I feel to give preference to Prof. Platt's treatment as shown in the recipe for "Uterine Hemorrhages." No relaxation from business need be required, unless the loss of blood makes it necessary, nor other treatment, except if blood has been swallowed, or if the bleeding is from the stomach, it would be well to give a mild cathartic. Bleeding from the stomach will be distinguished from bleeding from the lungs by a sense of weight, or pain, and unaccompanied by cough, and discharged by vomiting, and in larger quantities at a time than from the lungs. The blood will be darker also, and often mixed with particles of food.

Exercise in the open air is preferable to inactivity; and if any symptoms of returning hemorrhage show themselves, begin with the remedy without loss of time, and a reasonable hope of cure may be expected.

2. EXTERNAL STYPTIC REMEDIES.--Take a glazed earthen vessel that will stand heat and put into it water 2 1/2 pts.; tincture of benzoin 2 ozs.; alum 1/4 lb., and boil for 6 hours, replacing the water which evaporates in boiling, by pouring in boiling water so as not to stop the boiling process, constantly stirring. At the end of the 6 hours it is to be filtered or carefully strained and bottled, also in glass stoppered bottles. APPLICATION--Wet lint

and lay upon the wound, binding with bandages to prevent the thickened blood (coagula) from being removed from the mouth of the vessels, keeping them in place for 24 to 48 hours will be sufficient.

If any doubt is felt about this remedy, pour a few drops of it into a vessel containing human blood--the larger the quantity of the <emph rend="italic">styptic</emph>, the thicker will be the blood mass until it becomes black and thick. Pagliari was the first introduce this preparation to public notice.--<emph rend="italic">Eclectic Dispensatory.</emph

3. STYPTIC TINCTURE--EXTERNAL APPLICATION.--Best brandy 2 ozs.; finely scraped Castile soap 2 drs.; potash 1 dr.; mix all, and shake well when applied. Apply warm by putting lint upon the cut, wet with the mixture.

I have never had occasion to try either of the preparations, but if I do, it will be the "Balsam," or "External Styptic" first, and if they should fail I would try the "Tincture," for I feel that it must stop blood, but I also am certain that it would make a sore, aside from the cut; yet, better have a sore than lose life, of course. These remedies are such, that a physician might pass a lifetime without occasion to use, but none the less important to know.

BRONCHOCELE--ENLARGED NECK--TO CURE.--Iodide of potassium (often called hydriodate of potash,) 2 drs.; iodine 1 dr.; water 2 1/2 ozs.; mix and shake a few minutes and pour a little into a vial for internal use. DOSE--Five to 10 drops before each meal, to be taken in a little water. EXTERNAL APPLICATION.--With a feather wet the enlarged neck, from the other bottle, night and morning, until well.

It will cause the scarf skin to peel off several times before the cure is perfect, leaving it tender, but do not omit the application more than one day at most, and you may rest assured of a cure, if a cure can be performed by any means whatever; many cures have been performed by it and there is no medicine yet discovered which has proved one-hundreth part as successful.

2. BUT if you are willing to be longer in performing the cure, to avoid the soreness, dissolve the same articles in alcohol 1 pt., and use the same way, as above described, <emph rend="italic">(i.e.)</emph> both internal and external.

PAIN KILLER--SAID TO BE PERRY DAVIS'.--Alcohol 1 qt.; gum guaiac 1 oz,; gums myrrh and camphor, and cayenne pulverized, of each 1/2 oz. Mix. Shake occasionally for a week or

10 days and filter or let settle for use. Apply freely to surface pains, or it may be taken in tea-spoon doses for internal pains, and repeat according to necessities.

If any one can tell it from its namesake, by its looks or actions, we will then acknowledge that the old minister, from whom it was obtained, was greatly deceived, although he was perfectly familiar for a long time with Mr. Davis, and his mode of preparing the pain-killer.

POISONS--ANTIDOTE.--When it becomes known that a <emph rend="italic">poison</emph> has been swallowed, stir salt and ground mustard, of each a heaping tea-spoon, into a glass of water, and have it drank <emph rend="italic">immediately</emph>. It is the <emph rend="italic">quickest</emph> emetic known.

It should vomit in one minute. Then give the whites of two or three eggs in a cup or two of the strongest coffee. If no coffee, swallow the egg in sweet-cream, and if no cream sweet-milk, if neither, down with the egg.

I have used the mustard, with success, in the case of my own child, which had swallowed a "Quarter" beyond the reach of the finger, but remaining in the throat, which, to all appearances, would have soon suffocated him. I first took "granny's plan" of turning the head down and patting on the back; failing in this, I mixed a heaping tea-spoon of mustard in sufficient water to admit its being swallowed readily; and in a minute we had the quarter, dinner, and all; without it, we should have had no child.

I knew the mustard to work well once upon about twenty men in a boat-yard, on Belle River, Newport, Mich. I had been furnishing them with "Switchel" at twenty cents per bucket, made by putting about a pound of sugar, a quart of vinegar, and two or three table-spoons of ginger to the bucket of water, with a lump of ice. An old man, also in the grocery business, offered to give it to them at eighteen pence per bucket, but, by some mistake, he put in mustard instead of ginger. They had a general vomit, which made them think that Cholera had come with the horrors of "Thirty-Two," but as the downward effects were not experienced, it passed off with great amusement, safely establishing my custom at the twenty cents per bucket.

INFLAMMATORY DISEASES--DESCRIPTION.--Before I attempt to speak of the inflammation of particular organs, I shall make a few remarks upon the subject in general,

which will throw out the necessary light for those not already informed; and I should be glad to extend my treatment to all of the particular organs of the body, but the limits of the work only allows me to speak of Pleurisy, Inflammation of the Lungs, &c.; yet, <emph rend="italic">Eclectic</emph> ideas of inflammation are such, that if we can, successfully, treat inflammation in one part of the system, (body,) we can, with but little modification, succeed with it in all of its forms: And my general remarks shall be of such a nature as to enable any judicious person to, successfully, combat with inflammations in every part of the system. Then:

FIRST.--Inflammation is, generally, attended with <emph rend="italic">pain, increased heat, redness,</emph> and <emph rend="italic">swelling.</emph> Some, or all of these signs <emph rend="italic">always</emph> accompanying it, according to the <emph rend="italic">structure</emph> of the organ affected.

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