drop or two every hour will best control
the fever. The specific treatment, that which antidotes the poison in
the blood, consists in administering fifteen-drop doses of the tincture
of the muriate of iron in one teaspoonful of the "Golden Medical
Discovery," every three hours. As a local application, the inflamed
surface may be covered with cloths wet in the mucilage of slippery elm.
A preparation of equal parts of sweet oil and spirits of turpentine,
mixed and painted over the surface, is an application of great efficacy.

_For urticaria_, the "Pleasant Pellets" should be administered in
sufficient doses to move the bowels, the skin bathed with warm water
rendered alkaline by the addition of common baking soda or saleratus,
and, if there be any febrile symptoms, a little tincture of aconite or
veratrum may be administered in one drop doses once each hour. In the
chronic form of the disease, the diet should be light, unstimulating,
and easily digested, the skin kept clean by frequent bathing, and fresh
air and outdoor exercises freely taken. The somewhat protracted use of
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will result in the greatest
benefit in this form of disease.

BULLOUS AFFECTIONS.

The distinguishing feature of this group of cutaneous affections is the
formation of _bullae_, or blebs, which are defined as "eminences of the
cuticle, containing a fluid."

HERPES is an inflammation of the skin in which the eruption appears in
patches of a circular form. On the second day, minute, transparent
vesicles appear and gradually develop, becoming opalescent. On the
succeeding days, they shrink and produce reddish brown scabs, which soon
become hard and fall off, leaving deep, purplish pits. In adults, these
vesicles sometimes terminate in painful ulcers, caused by an irritation
of the eruption. By some practitioners, herpes is regarded as a purely
nervous disorder, from the fact that it is frequently accompanied by
severe neuralgic pains. These pains are not _constant_, but
_occasional_, and do not appear at any definite stage of the disease.
Sometimes they precede and accompany the eruption. Other instances are
recorded in which they remained many years after the disease had
disappeared. The local and constant pain of herpes is a severe burning,
prickling, itching sensation, which remains after the scabs fall.

The three _general_ forms of this disease are _herpes zoster_,
_phlyctoenodes_ and _circinatus_.