d water in the
morning. The gall must be applied for three successive nights. It is only
efficacious when the deafness is produced by cold. The most convenient way
of warming the gall is by holding it in a silver spoon over the flame of a
light. The above remedy has been frequently tried with perfect success.

GOUT.--This is Col. Birch's recipe for rheumatic gout or acute rheumatism,
commonly called in England the "Chelsea Pensioner." Half an ounce of nitre
(saltpetre), half an ounce of sulphur, half an ounce of flour of mustard,
half an ounce of Turkey rhubarb, quarter of an ounce of powdered guaicum.
Mix, and take a teaspoonful every other night for three nights, and omit
three nights, in a wine-glassful of cold water which has been previously
well boiled.

RINGWORM.--The head is to be washed twice a day with soft soap and warm
soft water; when dried the places to be rubbed with a piece of linen rag
dipped in ammonia from gas tar; the patient should take a little sulphur
and molasses, or some other genuine aperient, every morning; brushes and
combs should be washed every day, and the ammonia kept tightly corked.

PILES.--Hamamelis, both internally or as an injection in rectum. Bathe the
parts with cold water or with astringent lotions, as alum water, especially
in bleeding piles. Ointment of gallic acid and calomel is of repute. The
best treatment of all is, suppositories of iodoform, ergotine, or tannic
acid, which can be made at any drug store. {363}

CHICKEN POX.--No medicine is usually needed, except a tea made from
pleurisy root, to make the child sweat. Milk diet is the best; avoidance of
animal food; careful attention to the bowels; keep cool and avoid exposure
to cold.

SCARLET FEVER.--Cold water compress on the throat. Fats and oils rubbed on
hands and feet. The temperature of the room should be about 68 degrees
Fahr., and all draughts avoided. Mustard baths for retrocession of the rash
and to bring it out. Diet: ripe fruit, toast, gruel, beef tea and milk.
Stimulants are useful to counteract depression of the vital forces.

FALSE MEASLES OR ROSE RASH.--It requires no treatment except hygienic. Keep
the bowels open. Nourishing diet, and if there is itching, moisten the skin
with five per cent. solution of aconite or solution of starch and water.

BILIOUS ATTACKS.--Drop doses of muriatic acid in a wine glass of water
every four hours, or the following prescription. Bicarbonate of soda, one
drachm; Aromat