1⁄2 oz.; opium, 1⁄44 oz.; alcohol, 1 pt. In a week or ten days it will be fit for use, then bathe the parts freely 2 or 3 times daily.

This liniment would be found useful in almost any throat or other disease where an outward application might be needed. If the foregoing treatment should fail, there is no alternative but to bring in emetics with the other treatment, and continue them for a long time.

I mention the emetic plan last, from the fact that so many people utterly object to the emetic treatment. But when everything else fails, that steps in and saves the patient, which goes to show how unjust the prejudice. By the phrase, a long time, I mean several weeks, twice daily at first, then once a day, and finally thrice to twice a week, etc. A part of this course, you will see by the following, is corroborated by the celebrated Lung and Throat Doctor, S. S. Fitch, of New York, who says "it is a skin disease, and that purifying medicines are necessary to cleanse the blood-taking long, full breaths," etc. This is certainly good sense. His treatment of throat diseases is summed up in the following:

NOTE." Wear but little clothing around the neck-chew often a little nut-gall and swallow the juice-wear a wet cloth about the throat at night, having a dry towel over it-bathe freely all over, as in consumption, and especially bathe the throat with cold water every morning, also wash out the inside of the throat with cold water-avoid crowded rooms-gargle with a very weak solution of nitrate of silver —chewing gold-thread and swallowing the juice and saliva from it— borax and honey occasionally, and gum arabic water, if much irritation -use the voice as little as possible until well, also often using a liniment externally."

I had hoped for very much benefit from using croton-oil externaily, but time has shown that the advantage derived from it is not sufficient to remunerate for the excessive irritation caused by its continued application.

4. Smoking dried mullein leaves in a pipe not having been used for tobacco, is said to have cured many cases of Laryngitis. And I find in my last Eclectic Medical Journal so strong a corroboration, taken from the Medical and Surgical Reporter, of this fact, that I cannot refrain from giving the quotation. It says: "in that form of disease in which there is dryness of the trachea, with a constant desire to clear the throat, attended with little expectoration, and considerable pain in the part effected, the mullein smoked through a pipe acts like a charm and affords instant relief. It seems to act as an anodyne in allaying irritation, while it promotes expectoration, and removes that gelatinous mucus which gathers in the larynx, and, at the same time, by some unknown power, completely changes the nature of the disease, and, if persevered in, will produce a radical cure."

We read in a certain place of a gentleman who was walking

around and through a great city, and he came across an inscription “To the unknown God,”—and directly we find him explaining that unknown Being to the astonished inhabitants. And I always feel, like this old-fashioned gentleman, to cry out, upon every convenient occasion, my berief, that it was that God's great wisdom, seeing what was required, and His exceeding goodness, providing according to our necessities, this wonderrur, and, to some, that unknown power in the thousands of plants around us. What matters it to us how it is done? If the cure is performed, it is sufficient.

Since the publication of the foregoing, in the ninth edition, I have been smoking the dried muticin, and recommending it to others. It has given general satisfaction for coughs and as a substitute for tobacco in smoking, exhilarating the nerves, and allaying the hacking coughs from recent colds, by breathing the smoke into the lungs. In one instance, after retiring, I could not rest from an irritation in the upper portion of the lungs and throat, frequently hacking without relief only for a moment. I arose, filled my pipe with mullein, returning to bed, I smoked the pipeful, drawing it into the lungs, and did not cough again during the night.

An old gentleman, an inveterate smoker, from my suggestion began to mix the mullein with his tobacco, one-fourth at first, for a while, then half, and finally three-fourths; at this point he rested. It satisfied in place of the full amount of tobacco, and cured a cough which had been left upon him after inflammation of the lungs. The flavor can hardly be distinguished from the flavor of tobacco smoke,

in rooms.

It can be gathered any time during the season. the centre stem removed, carefully dried, and rubbed fine, when it is ready for use. It gives a pipe the phthisic, as fast as it cures one on the patient; but the clay pipe, which is to be used, can be readily cleansed by burning

out.

Here is the "Substitute for Tobacco" for which the French have offered 50,000 francs.

It can be made into cigars by using a tobacco-leaf wrapper. Catarrh is often more or less connected with that disease. In such cases, in connection with the above treatment, take several times daily of the following:

Catarrh Snuff.-Scotch snuff, 1 oz.; chloride of lime, dried and pulverized, 1 rounding tea-spoon; mix, and bottle, corking tightly.

The snuff has a tendency to aid the secretion from the parts; and the chloride corrects unpleasant fetor.

CANCERS.-To Cure.-Method of Dr. Landolfi, (SurgeonGeneral of the Neapolitan Army,) and several Successful American Methods. The principle upon which the treatment is based, consists

in transforming a tumor of malignant character, by conferring up it a character of benignity, which admits of cure. This transformation is effected by cauterization with an agent looked upon as specific, viz., chloride of bromine, combined or not with other substances. which have been tried, but have hitherto been employed separately. The internal treatment is merely auxiliary. (Cancers may be known from other tumors by their shooting or lancinating pains; and if an open sore, from their great fetor.-AUTHOR.) The formulas for the caustics are with the exception of a few cases, the following:

Equal parts of the chlorides of zinc, gold, and antimony, mixed with a sufficient quantity of flour to form a viscid paste.

At Vienna, he used a mixture of the same substances in different proportions; chloride of bromine, 8 parts; chloride of zinc, 2 parts; chloride of gold and antimony, each 1 part; made into a thick paste with powdered licorice root. This preparation should be made in an open place, on account of the gases which are disengaged.

The essential element is the chloride of bromine, which has often. been employed alone; thus, chloride of bromine from 2% to 4 drs., and put licorice root as much as sufficient.

The chloride of zinc is indispensable in ulcerated cancers, in which it acts as a hemastatic, (stopping blood). The chloride of gold is only useful in cases of encephaloid (brain-like) cancers, in which it exercises a special, if not a specific action. Cancers of the skin, (epitheliomas,) lupus, and small cystosarcomas, (watery or bloody tumors,) are treated with bromine mixed with basilicon ointment in the proportion of one part of bromine to eight of the ointment. The application should not extend to the healthy parts, its action being often propogated through a space of one or two lines. The paste is only allowed to remain on about twenty-four hours. On removing the dressing, a line of demarkation is almost always found separating the healthy from the morbid parts. The tumor is itself in part whitish and part reddish, or marbled with yellow and blue. The caustic is replaced with the poultice, or with compresses smeared with basilicon ointment only, which are to be removed every three hours until the scar is detached; the pain progressively diminishing in proportion as the mortification advances, the line of demarkation daily becomes more evident; about the fourth or fifth day the cauterized portion begins to rise, and from the eighth to the fifteenth day it becomes detached, or can be removed with forceps, and without pain, exposing a suppurating surface, secreting pus of a good quality and covered with healthy granulations. If any points remain of less satisfactory appearance, or present traces of morbid growth, a little of the paste is to be again applied, then dress the sore as you would a simple ulcer. If the suppuration proceeds too slowly, dress it with lint dipped in the following solution:

Chloride of bromine, 20 or 30 drops; Goulard's Extract, from 1 to 2 drs; distilled water, 16 ozs.

In the majority of cases healing takes place rapidly, cicatrization progresses from the circumference to the center, no complications supervene, and the cicatrix (scar), resembles that left by a cutting instrument. His internal remedy, to prevent a relapse, is:

Chloride of bromine, 2 drops; powder of the seeds of water fenel, 23 grs.; extract of hemlock, (Conium Maculatum,) 12 grs.; mix and divide into 20 pills; one to be taken daily for two months, and after that, two pills daily for a month or two longer, one night and morning after meals.

In any case of Cancer, either the foregoing, internal remedy, or some of the other Alteratives, should be taken two or three weeks before the treatment is commenced, and should also be continued several weeks after its cure.

2. Dr. H. G. Judkins' Method.-This gentleman, of Malaga, Monroe county, Ohio, takes:

Chloride of zinc, the size of a hazel-nut, and puts enough water with it to make a thin paste, then mixes with it equal parts of flour, and finely pulverized charcoal, sufficient to form a tolerable stiff paste.

He spreads this on a soft piece of sheep skin, sufficiently large to cover the tumor, and applies every two days until it is detached, then dresses it with "Judkins' Ointment," which see. Again

3. L. S. Hodgkins' Method.—This gentleman is a merchant, of Reading, Mich. The method is not original with him, but he cured his wife with it, of cancer of the breast, after having been pronounced incurable. Some would use it because it contains calomel-others would not use it for the same reason; I gave it an insertion from the fact that I am well satisfied that it has cured the disease, and from the singularity of its composition.

Take a white oak root and bore out the heart and burn the chips to get the ashes, 14 oz.; lunar caustic, 4 oz.; calomel, 4 oz.; salts of nitre, (saltpetre) 14 oz.; the body of a thousand-legged worm, dried and pulverized, all to be made fine and mixed with 4 lb. of lard.

Spread this rather thin upon soft leather, and apply to the cancer, changing twice a day; will kill the tumor in three or four days, which you will know by the general appearance; then apply a poultice of soaked figs until it comes out, fibres and all; heal with a plaster made by boiling red beech leaves in water, straining and boiling thick, then mix with bees-wax and mutton tallow to form a salve of proper consistency. To cleanse the system while the above is being used, and for some time after:

Take mandrake root, pulverized, 1 oz.; Epsom salts, 1 oz.; put into pure gin, 1 pt., and take of this three times daily, from one tea

to a table-spoon, as you can bear. He knew of several other cures from the same plan.

4. The juice of pokeberries, set in the sun, upon a pewter dish, and dried to the consistence of a salve, and applied as a plaster, has cured cancer.

5. Poultices of scraped carrots, and of yellow dock root, have both cured, and the scraped carrot poultices. especially not only cleanse the sore, but remove the very offensive smell or fetor, which is characteristic of cancers.

6. A gentleman in Ohio cures them by making a tea of the yellow dock root, and drinking of it freely, washing the sore with the same several times daily for several days, then poulticing with the root, mashed and applied twice daily, even on the tongue.

7. Rev. C. C. Cuyler, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., says he has known several cases cured as follows:

Take the narrow-leaved dock root and boil it in soft water until very strong, wash the ulcer with this strong decoction 3 times in the 24 hours, fill the cavity also with the same 2 minutes, each time, then bruise the root, and lay it on gauze, and lay the gauze next to the ulcer, and wet linen cloths in the decoction and lay over the poultice; and each time let the patient drink a wine-glass of the strong tea of the same root, with % of a glass of port-wine sweetened with honey. 8. Dr. Buchan's work on Medicine, gives the case of a person, who had cancer of the tongue, cured in fourteen days, as follows:

Dilute nitric acid, 1 oz.; honey, 2 ozs.; pure water, 2 pts.; mix. DOSE. Three table-spoons frequently, to be sucked past the teeth, through a quill or tube.

Opium was given at night, simply to keep down pain.

9. Great English Remedy-By which a brother of Lowell Mason was cured, is as follows:

Take chloride of zinc, bloodroot, pulverized, and flour, equal quantities of each, worked into a paste and applied until the mass comes out, then poultice and treat as a simple sore.

The Rural New Yorker, in reporting this case, says, in applying it, "First spread a common sticking-plaster much larger than the cancer, cutting a circular piece from the center of it a little larger than the cancer, applying it, which exposes a narrow rim of healthy skin; then apply the cancer plaster and keep it on twenty-four hours. On removing it, the cancer will be found to be burned into, and appears the color of an old shoe-sole, and the rim outside will appear white and parboiled, as if burned by steam.

"Dress with slippery elm poultice until suppuration takes place, then heal with any common salve."

10. Armenian Method.-In Armenia, a salve, made by boiling