ly with
a soft brush or feather, and renew the application from time to time.
Each renewal brings fresh relief, and a most grateful coolness. If the
injury is severe, especially if it involve the chest, give ten drops
of laudanum to an adult, and repeat it in an hour, and again a third
time. To a child of ten years give, in like manner, only three drops,
but beware of giving any to an infant. This plan with an internal
stimulant, according to age, as brandy, or salvolatile, or both,
should be at once adopted, until the arrival of the medical attendant.

2436. Lime-Water.

Lime-water beaten up with sweet oil is an excellent application for
burns.

2437. Pitting in Small Pox.

The following is a simple process that has been adopted most
successfully, not only in cases of small pox, in which it completely
prevented pitting, but in all eruptive diseases generally, such as
measles, scarlatina, nettlerash, chicken pox, &c., relieving the
itching, tingling, and irritation of those complaints, and thereby
affording great relief, especially in the case of children. It
consists in smearing the whole surface of the body, after the eruption
is fairly out, with bacon fat; and the simplest way of employing it is
to boil thoroughly a small piece of bacon with the skin on, and when
cold to cut off the skin with the fat adhering to it, which is to be
scored crosswise with a knife, and then gently rubbed over the surface
once, twice, or thrice a day, according to the extent of the eruption
and the recurrence of itching and irritation.

Another plan, practised by Dr. Allshorn, of Edinburgh, is to mix three
parts of oil with one of white wax, by heat, and while warm and fluid
to paint over the face and neck with a camel-hair brush. As this cools
and hardens it forms a mask, which effectually excludes the air, and
prevents pitting. It is said that if light is admitted into the
patient's room through yellow blinds, so that the red and blue rays of
the sun are excluded, pitting will be prevented.

2438. Cutaneous Eruptions.

The following mixture is very useful in all cutaneous eruptions:
Ipecacuanha wine, four drachms; flowers of sulphur, two drachms:
tincture of cardamoms, one ounce. Mix: one teaspoonful to be taken
three times a day, in a wineglassful of water.

2439. Wash for a Blotched Face.

Rose water, three ounces: sulphate of zinc, one drachm. Mi