treatment should depend upon the character of the ulcer. If
the sore be _irritable_ or painful, soothing applications, such as warm
poultices or steaming in a vapor of bitter herbs, as hops, boneset or
smart-weed or water pepper, will be found highly beneficial. A poultice
of powdered slippery elm is also very soothing, and hence well adapted
to this purpose. If the ulcer be _indolent_, a stimulating application
is necessary. The hardened, callous state of the edges should be removed
by alkaline applications. A strong solution of saleratus, or even a
caustic, prepared by boiling the lye from hard-wood ashes to the
consistence of syrup, will prove of great utility. One or two
applications of the latter are generally sufficient.

The foregoing course of treatment is intended to put the open sore or
ulcer in what is known to surgeons as a healthy condition--a condition
most favorable for the healing process.

But the open surface of the sore needs something more. It needs the
cleansing or antiseptic and soothing influence of such a dressing as is
found in Dr. Pierce's All-Healing Salve. If your dealer in medicines
does not have this Salve in stock, 25 cents in stamps sent to World's
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y., will secure a box of this
unequaled dressing. It will be sent to your address by return post.
Therefore, do not allow the dealer to put you off with some inferior
preparation. If he has not the All-Healing Salve in stock you can easily
obtain it by sending to us as above directed.

No matter how good the local dressing applied to the open sore, or
ulcer, do not discontinue the internal use of the "Golden Medical
Discovery" until the affected parts are completely healed.

FEVER-SORE. (NECROSIS.)

By the term _necrosis_ we mean mortification, or the state of a bone
when it is deprived of life. Dunglison says: "This condition is to the
bone what _gangrene_ is to the soft parts." It is popularly known as
_fever-sore_, there being no distinction made between this species of
sore and those ulcers which affect only the soft tissues of the body.
When any part of a bone becomes _necrosed_, it is treated as a foreign
body. Nature makes an effort for its removal, and at the same time
attempts to replace it with new and healthy materials. In consequence of
this process, the dead portion is often inclosed in a case of new, sound
bone, termed the _involucrum_; when this is the case the dead portion is
t