ther articles, stirring well; then pour into cold water and work as wax until cool enough to roll.

This salve has no equal for rheumatic pains, or weakness in the side, back, shoulders, or any place where pain may locate itself Where the skin is broken, as in ulcers, and bruises, I use it without the verdigris, making a white salve, even superior to "Peleg White's Old Salve." It is valuable in Dyspepsia, to put a plaster of the green salve over the stomach, and wear it as long as it will stay on, upon the back also, or any place where pain or weakness may locate. In cuts, bruises, abrasions, etc, spread the white salve upon cloth and apply it as a sticking plaster until well; for rheumatism or weakness, spread the green salve upon soft leather and apply, letting it remain on as long as it will stay. For corns, spread the green salve upon cloth and put upon the corn, letting it remain until cured. It has cured them.

A gentleman near Lancaster, Ohio, obtained one of my books having this recipe in it, and one year afterwards he told me he had sold over four thousand rolls of the salve, curing an old lady of rheumatism in six weeks, who had been confined to her bed for seven weeks, covering all the large joints with the salve, without other treatment. For rolling out salves, see the cut on page 142.

2. Conklin's Celebrated Salve.-Resin, 4 lbs. ; bees-wax, Burgundy pitch, white pine turpentine, and mutton tallow, each, 4 lb.; camphor gum and balsam of fir, of each, 1⁄44 oz.; sweet oil, 1⁄2 oz.; and alcohol, 1⁄2 pt. Melt, mix, roll out, and use as other salves. Wonders have been done with it.

3. Balm of Gilead Salve.-Mutton tallow, 1⁄2 lb.; balm of gilead buds, 2 ozs.; white pine gum, 1 oz.; red precipitate, 1⁄2 oz.; hard soap, 1⁄2 oz.; white sugar, 1 table-spoon. Stew the buds in the tallow until the strength is obtained, and press out or strain, scrape the soap and add it with the other articles to the tallow, using suilicient unsalted butter or sweet oil to bring it to a proper consistence to spread easily upon cloth. When nearly cool, stir in the red precipitate, mixing thoroughly.

This may be more appropriately called an ointment. It is used for cats, scalds, bruises, etc., and for burns, by spreading very thin-if sores get proud flesh in them, sprinkle a little burned alum on the salve before applying it. It has been in use in this country about forty years, with the greatest success.

4. Adhesive Plaster, or Salve, for Deep Wounds, Cuts, etc., in Place of Stitches.-White resin, 7 ozs.; bees-wax and mutton tallow, of each, 1⁄2 oz.; melt all together, then pour into cold water and work as wax until thoroughly mixed, then roll out into suitable sticks for

use.

It may be spread upon firm cloth and cut into narrow strips. In case of deep wounds, or cuts, it will be found to firmly hold them together, by first pressing one end of a strip upon one side of the wound until it adheres, then draw the edges of the wound closely together, and press down the other end of the strip until it adheres

also. The strips should reach three or four inches upon each side of the cut, and run in different directions across each other, to draw every part of the wound firmly in contact. It will crack easily after being spread until applied to the warm flesh, yet if made any softer it can not be depended upon for any length of time, but as it is, it has been worn as a strengthening plaster, and remained on over a year.

5. Peleg White's Old Salve.-This formerly celebrated salve was composed of only three very simple articles. Our "Green Mountain Salve" is far ahead of it, yet for the satisfaction of its old friends I give you its composition:

Resin, 3 lbs.; mutton tallow and bees-wax, of each, 4 lb.; melted together and poured into cold water, then pulled, and worked as shoemakers' wax.

etc.

It was recommended for old sores, cuts, rheumatic plasters, etc.,

Apparatus for Making Salves and Lozenges.

The above cut represents a board prepared with strips upon it or the desired thickness for the diameter of the rolls of salve, also a piece of board with a handle, with which to roll the salve when properly cooled for that purpose. The salve is laid between the strips, which are generally one inch thick, then, with the handle piece, roll it until that board comes down upon the strips, which makes the rolls all of one size; use a little tallow to prevent sticking to the boards or hands; then cut off the desired length, and put a label upon them, to prevent them sticking to each other.

A roller and tin cutter are also represented in the same cut, with which, and another board, having thin strips upon it to correspond with thickness of lozenges required, you can roll the mass down until the roller touches the strips; and thus you can get them, as well as the salve, of uniform thickness; then cut out with the cutter, laying them upon paper until dry.

VERMIFUGES.-Santonin Lozenges.-Santonin, 60 grs.; pulverized sugar, 5 ozs.; mucilage of gum tragacanth sufficient to make into a thick paste, worked carefully together, that the santonin shall be evenly mixed throughout the whole mass, then if not in too great a

hurry, cover up the mortar in which you have rubbed them, and let stand from 12 to 24 hours to temper; at which time they will roll out better than if done immediately; divide into 120 lozenges. See apparatus, on preceding page, for rolling and cutting out. DOSE. For a

child 1 year old, 1 lozenge, night and morning; of 2 years, 2 lozenges; of 4 years, 3; of 8 years, 4; of 10 years or more, 5 to 7 lozenges; in all cases to be taken twice daily, and continuing until the worms start on a voyage of discovery.

A gentleman came into the drug store one morning, with the remark, "Do you know what your lozenges have been doing? " As though they had killed some one, the answer was, no, is there anything wrong; he held up both hands together, scoop shovel style, saying, "They fetched away the worms by the double handful." It is needless to attempt to give the symptoms by which the presence of worms might be distinguished; for the symptoms of nearly every other disease is, sometimes, manifested by their presence. But if the belly be quite hard and unusually large, with a peculiar and disagreeable breath in the morning, foul or furred tongue, upper lip swollen, itching of the nose and anus, milky white urine, bowels sometimes obstinately costive, then as obstinately loose, with a craving appetite, then loathing food at times; rest assured that worm medicine will not be amiss, whether the person be child or adult. It would be well to take a mild cathartic after four to six days use of the lozenges, unless the worms have passed off sufficiently free before that time, to show their general destruction. Very high praise has also been given to the following:

2. Vermifuge Oil-Prof. Freeman's.-In the May number of the Eclectic Medical Journal of Cincinnati, Ohio, I find so valuable a vermifuge from Prof. Z. Freeman, that I must be excused for its insertion, as the articles can always be obtained, whilst in some places you might not be able to get the santonin called for in the lozenges. His remarks following the recipe will make all needed explanations, and give confidence in the treatment.

The explanations in brackets are my own, according to the custom through the whole work.

Take oil of chenopodii, 1⁄2 oz. (oil of worm-seed,); oil of terebinth, 2 drs. (oil of turpentine,); oil of ricini, 11⁄2 ozs. (castor oil,); fluid extract of spigelia, 1⁄2 oz. (pink,); hydrastin, 10 grs.; syrup of menth. pip., 1⁄2 oz. (syrup of peppermint.) DOSE.-To a child of 10 years of age, a tea-spoon 3 times a day, 1 hour before each meal; if it purges too freely, give it less often.

This is an excellent vermifuge, tonic, and cathartic, and has never failed (as well as I can judge,) to eradicate worms, if any were present, when administered for that purpose. I have given no other vermifuge for the last five years, and often one tea-spoon has brought away from three to twenty of the lumbrica. Only a few days ago I prescribed one fluid drachm of it, (about one tea-spoon,) and caused

the expulsion of sixty lumbricoids, and one fluid drachm. taking a few days afterwards, by the same child, brought away forty more, some of them six inches in length. Where no worms are present, it answers the purpose of a tonic, correcting the condition of the mucus membrane of the stomach and bowels, improving the appetite and diges tion, and operating as a mild cathartic."

3. Worm Tea.-Carolina pink-root, senna leaf, manna, and American worm-seed, of each, oz.; bruise and pour on boiling water, 1 pt., and steep without boiling, Sweeten well, add half as much milk. DOSE.-A child of five years, may take 1 gill 3 times daily, before meals, or suflicient to move the bowels rather freely.

If this does not carry off any worms, wait one day and repeat the operation; but if the bowels do not move by the first day's work, increase the dose and continue to give it until that end is attained before stopping the medicine. This plan will be found an improvement upon the old where the lozenges or oil cannot be obtained, as above.

4. Worm Cake.-English Remedy.—Wheat flour and jalap, of each, 1⁄2 lb.; calomel, grain-tin, and ginger, of each, 1 oz. Mix thoroughly and wet up as dough, to a proper consistence to roll out; then roll out as lozenge cakes, to three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness; then cut out 34 inch square and dry them. DOSE.-For a child from 1 to 2 years, 4 of a cake; 4 to 5 years, 1 cake; from 5 to 7 years, 14 cakes; from 7 to 10, 1; from 10 to 12, 14; from 12 to 14, 2; from 14 to 17, 24; from 17 to 20 years, and all above that age, 2% cakes, but all men above that age, 3 cakes.

"Children may eat them, or they can be shaved off very fine and mixed in a little treacle, honey or preserves. If after taking the first dose they do not work as you desire, increase the dose a little. The patient to take the medicine twice a week-Sundays and Wednesdays. To be taken in the morning, fasting, and to be worked off with a little warm tea, water gruel, or warm broth. N. B.-Milk must not be used in working them off, and be careful of catching cold.—Snodin, Printer, Oakham, Eng."

I obtained the above of an English family who prized it very highly as a cathartic for common purposes, as well as for worms. And all who are willing to take calomel, I have no doubt will be pleased. with its operations.

TAPE WORM.-Simple, but Effectual Remedy.-This, very annoying and distressing, worm has been removed by taking two ounce doses of common pumpkin-seeds, pulverized, and repeated every four or five hours, for four or five days, spirits of turpentine, also in doses of one-half to two ounces, with castor oil, have proved very effectual, the root of the male fern, valerian, bark of the pomegranate root, etc., have been used with success. But my chief object in speaking upon this subject, is to give the successes of Drs. Beach, of New York, and Dowler, of Beardstown, Ill., from their singularity and perfect eradication of the worm, in both cases: The first is from "Beach's Ameri

can Practice, and Family Physician," a large work, of three volumes, costrug Twenty Dollars, consequently not generally circulated; whilst the latter is taken from the "Eclectic Medical and College Journal," of Cincinnati, and therefore only taken by physicians of that school. The last was first published by the "New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal." First then, Dr. Beach says:

"The symptoms of a tape-worm, as related to me by Miss Dumouline, who had suffered with it for twenty-five years, are in substance as follows: It commenced at the age of ten, and afflicted her to the age of thirty-five. The worm often made her distressingly sick at the stomach; she would sometimes vomit blood and be taken suddenly ill, and occasionally while walking. It caused symptoms of many other diseases, great wasting of the flesh, etc. Her appetite was very capricious, being at times good, and then poor for months, during which time her symptoins were much aggravated; sickness, vomiting, great pain in the chest, stomach and zide, motion in the stomach, and also in the bowels, with pain, a sense of fullness or swelling, and beating or throbbing in the same, dizziness, heaviness of the eyes:--and she was altogether so miserable that she feared it would destroy her. When she laced or wore anything tight, it produced great distress. The worm appeared to rise up in her throat and sicken her. Her general health was very bad. At intervals, generally some time after taking medicine, pieces of the worm would pass from the bowels.-often as many as forty during the day, all alive, and would swim in water.

"TREATMENT.-Miss Dumonline stated that she had employed twenty physicians, at different periods, and taken a hundred different kinds of medicine without expelling the worm. She had taken spirits of turpentine, but could not retain it upon the stomach. Under these circumstances I commenced my treatment. Cowage stripped from the pod, a small tea-spoon three times a day, to be taken, fasting, in a little arrow-root jelly; then occasionally a purgative of mandrake. In connection with this, I directed her to eat freely of garlic, and common fine salt. I gave these under the belief that each article possessed vermifuge properties, without ever having administered them for the tape-worm. After having taken them for some time, all her unfavorable symptoms ceased, and subsequently the remaining portion of the worm passed lifeless from her-an unprecedented circumstance.

"She immediately recovered, and has since retained her health, and there is no evidence that there is any remaining. The patient stated that the worm which passed from her during the time she was afflicted with it, would fill a peck measure, and reach one mile in length. Her relief and gratitude may be better imagined than described. I have a portion of this worm in my possession. When once the tape-worm begins to pass the bowels, care must be taken not to break it off for it will then grow again-it has this peculiar property."

2. Secondly, Dr. Dowler says: "The subject of this notice is a