e of the best alteratives. In this
class of agents Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery stands
pre-eminent. Its efficacy may be increased in this disease by adding to
each bottle one ounce of the acetate of potash, and, when thus modified,
it may be administered in the same manner as if no addition had been
made to it.

_The Treatment of Sycosis_ should be essentially the same as that
suggested for favus, and it will result in prompt relief and a permanent
cure.

_Treatment of Acne._ In the treatment of this, as in that of other
diseases, we should seek to ascertain the cause, and, when possible,
remove it. Outdoor exercise, a spare, unstimulating diet, and perfect
cleanliness are of the first importance. The affected parts should be
bathed with warm water and Castile, or, what is better, carbolic soap.
Washing the face in cold water generally aggravates the disease. As a
local application to the pustules, we have used with good results the
following lotion: Oxide of zinc, twenty grains; morphine, five grains;
glycerine, two ounces: mix. First having washed the affected parts
thoroughly, apply this compound. Our chief reliance, however, as in the
preceding diseases, should be upon the persistent use of alteratives and
mild cathartics or laxatives.

FURUNCULAR AFFECTIONS. (BOIL-LIKE AFFECTIONS.)

Under this head properly belong boils, carbuncles, and styes.

BOILS. These annoying affections are hard, prominent, circumscribed,
inflamed, suppurating tumors, having their seat in the cellular tissue
beneath the skin. They vary in size from a pea to a hen's egg, and may
occur on any part of the body. The color of a boil varies from deep red
to mahogany. It is painful, tender, advances rapidly to maturity,
becomes conical, and finally bursts and discharges bloody "matter."
Through the opening, and filling the cavity, may be seen a piece of
sloughing cellular tissue which is called the _core_. In from four to
fifteen days, it is all expelled and the sore rapidly heals. The causes
are an impure condition of the blood, which generally arises from
imperfect action of the liver or kidneys.

TREATMENT. Spirits of turpentine applied to a boll _in its earliest
stage_ will almost always cause it to disappear; but when suppuration
has commenced it should be favored by the application of poultices. Next
purify the blood to prevent subsequent returns to other parts of the
body. For this purpose take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical