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A "Subscriber, of Rochester, O., gave the following answer: Tell

"Mrs. C." to use the following, which I have used, in a great many cases,

without failure: Carolina pink root, senna, American worm seed and manna,

Dose 1 gill (about 8 tablesteep for 1 hour in water, \% pts.

each

oz.

There

spoonfuls), once a day, in one-half as much new milk, well sweetened

" about this, it will cure.

I cured myself after having conis no " ifs " or " buts

vulsions for over three years, and being given up by doctors; and since then it

%

—

;

has cured many of my neighbors.

Remarks. This writer says nothing about injecting it; but there would be

—

no impropriety or danger in doing so, as it is for pin-worms, which mostly

The injecinfest the rectum, and for which injections are the most effe^jtual.

tion should be kept in place as long as it can be borne, by holding a wad of

This preparation, however,

cloth to prevent its voluntary escape, or discharge.

is very appropriate for the long round worm, and the author is of the opinion

that it was for that, and not pin-worm, that this writer gave it.

7.

Pin- Worms.

cold water, 1

pt.,

—A solution made by soaking rasped quassia, 3^

oz.,[ia

for 13 hours, then straining, for the purpose of injection, is

very effectual to remove pin-worms.

A solution of aloes, J^ oz., with carbon-

ate of potash, 15 grs., in i^ pt. of decoction, or tea, of

barley, dissolved

by

rubbing together, for an injection or an injection of simple sweet oil, says Dr.

Warren, of Boston, are very effectual in removing pin-worms. Lime water

(which see how to make) is also frequently used as an injection for the removal

;

of pin-worms.

Worm,

J.

Dr. TurnbuU's Successful Remedy.— Dr. R.

8. Tape

Turnbull, of Duncansley, Miss., in a recent issue of the Medical and Sur*

gical Reporter, says: I notice a request for a recipe for tape worm.

The fol-

lowing prescription proved most efficacious with me in the treatment of a

Bark of the pompatient who suffered for more than 3 years with tape worm.

% oz. peeled pumpkin seed, 3^ dr. ethereal ex. of male-fern

made with ether), 1 dr.; powdered ergot, J^ dr.; powdered gum

arable, 2 drs. croton oil, 3 drops.

Directions The pomegranate root and

pumpkin seed must be thoroughly bruised, and, with the ergot, boiled in 8 ozs,

egranate root,

;

;

(an extract

—

;

of water, for 15 minutes (the author would saynot less than 30 minutes), then

strain through coarse cloth.

The croton oil must be rubbed up with the gum

arabic and extract of male-fern, and then formed into an emulsion (by rubbing

or thoroughly stirring), with the decoction.

This is the prescription of Dr. A.

of Washington, D. C, who employs no preliminary provision,

except forbidding the patient to take only breakfast the day on which it is

J. Schafish,

intended to remove the worm, and give a large dose of Rochelle salts the night

before.

No unpleasant effects follow this remedy.

Brief

—

Remarks. The author would say, if the croton oil does not cause a passage

in 3 hours at most after taking the mixture, give 2 blue and 1 white

paper of seidlitz powder to get thorough action from the bowels.

9. Dr. Currie, of Lebanon, N. H., gives an account in the Brief of

removing a tape-worm from a girl 16 years old, by the simple articles of pump-

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and mixed with the

white sugar, ^ oz. the seed pounded

was taken:

—A tea-spoonful of the mixture every 2 hours,

kin seed, 1 oz.

Dose

sugar.

following the

;

fine,

;

till

last

dose with castor

oil

all

and spirits of turpentine.

The next

morning I was presented with the worm entire, 7 meters long.

Remarks.

—A meter

length.

is

a little less than 393^ inches, or a total length of worm

They have been expelled from 60 to 100 feet in

The proper dose of castor oil for a girl of 16 would be 1 table-spoonful,

equal to 23

feet, at least.

with the spirits of turpentine, 1 tea-spoonful, mixed; and to avoid nausea or its

Repeat the dose in 2 or 3

hours, unless a free passage is obtained before this time. Unless the worm put

in an appearance, I would repeat the whole on the third day, at farthest; the

second, unless the stomach was considerably disturbed, would be better. More

or less, according to the age and robustness of the person, may be given.

disagreeable taste, add a few drops of oil of cinnamon.

10.

Otlier

Remedies. — Dr.

Bennett

says:

" Of

all

the vermifuge

remedies proposed for the expulsion of tape-worms, I have found ethereal ex. of

male-fern the most effectual." (See Dr. Turnbull's remedy above.)

Dr. Caldwell, Baltimore, Md., claims that the Dundas, Dick & Co.'s capsules of male-fern and kamala, produced with a patient of his, the happy result

of expelling a monster of some 31 feet in length, after taking 6 capsules according to printed directions accompanying them also relieving a cough, vomiting,

and all other unpleasant symptoms attending its presence.

;

11. Tape- Worm— The Latest, Most Easily Taken, and Most

Successful Remedy for. — There has been quite a stir made recently by

two or three traveling physicians with the French chemist Tauret's "pellltierremoving tape-worms. I have seen several that have been removed

here within a few months. I had known that one physician was using it here

with success before, but not being of the talkative kind, very little was said

about it. With this introduction, I will say: Tauret's " pelletierine " is put up

in bottles containing one dose only, and retails at about $3 per bottle.

Its action

is to numb the worm, causing more or less giddiness, according to the nervousness of the patient.

This soon passes off by the patient laying down and keeping quiet. It is perfectly safe, and but slight preparation is necessary to take it.

Doze One bottle being a full doze for a man, delicate females and youths

of about 15 years would take only two-thirds; children of 10 or 12, one-half,

and of 4 to 8 years, only one-third of a bottle. Directions — The day before

ine," in

—

it is to be taken, take a laxative

for supper, eat only a milk diet.

or gentle cathartic, or a copious injection

;

and,

In the morning take half a glass of water on

an empty stomach; then, five minutes after, take the pellfitierine, and, immediately after, half a glass more of water, slightly sweetened.

Three-fourths of an

hour after take a dose of comp. tinct. of jalap; or infusion of senna (made by

steeping J>^ oz.), sweetened with syrup of orange-peel.

If in a few hours there

are no stools, take a purgative injection or repeat the purgative medicine. The

giddiness will come on in about 15 minutes after taking the pelletierine, and the

worms ought to be expelled in 2 to 4 hours. I have seen one passed in IJ^ hrs.

from the taking of the remedy. It is important to remember, say the instructions scut out, that the purgative must act rapidly.

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longer than the giddiness lasts; then move about, to help the action of the medicines.

I have taken these instructions from a pamphlet sent out by E. Fougera

& Co., 30 Nortli William st, New York, who supply the article if your drugThis is not an advertisement for them, but to help any one

They do not know that I have mentioned them even;

but, knowing its value, I have given it, to save those needing it from paying

$10 to $50, as these tramping doctors charge for their removal. The pellfitierine is made from pomegranate bark, which has been the main dependence for

removing tape worms; but as it had to be made in the form of an infusion and

taken in large doses of a 3^ pt. or more, often causing sickness of the stomach,

this new preparation is as great a boone as quinine was over having to take the

Peruvian bark in powder, as formerly and as the pellStierine has proved very

successful, it will, undoubtedly be but a short time till our druggists will keep

it, and it will enter into general use.

Speaking of its success, I will mention a

few cases, only to show the estimation it is held in.

gist has not got it.

to obtain it who needs it.

;

Professor LahoulbSne gives 19 successes in 19 trials.

Dujardin-Beametz,

member of the Academy of Medicine, France, succeeded 37 times in 39 trials.

Dr. Ed. Mount, of Montreal, had 4 successes out of 4

had been troubled with tape worm for 26 years.

trials;

one of the cases

Dr. H. Wilfert, of the Cin-

cinnati Academy succeeded also in every case.

mention only one case more, the worm I spoke of being removed,

The medicine was administereda

boy of less than 20 years, who had been with a doctor for a short time only, and

I will

in one hour and a half, in the foregoing.

learned what

was used.

y

The man was a butcher, and was well pleased to be

rid of his tormentor.

—

Remarks. Certainly, with the foregoing list of remedies to select from, no

one should long be permitted to suffer the presence of either variety of worms,

unless it should be thought worth while to keep " His Majesty " (the tape worm)

in a bottle of alcohol, as a trophy of success in his removal.

DYSPEPTICS— Bad Cases Put Upon the Right Tack.—

1.

A writer in the Medical Journal, discoursing upon dyspepsia, says: " We have

seen dyspeptics who suffered untold torments with almost every kind of food.

Bread became a burning acid. Meat and milk were solid and liquid fires. We

have seen these same sufferers tr3ing to avoid food and drink, and even going

enema (syringe) for sustenance. And we have seen the tc-.-ments pass

away and their hunger relieved by living upon the white of eggs, which have

been boiled in bubbling water for thirty minutes. At the end of a week, we

have given the hard yolk of the egg with the white, and upon this diet alone,

without fluid of any kind, we have seen them begin to gain flesh and strength,

to the

and refreshing sleep.

great care, to begin

taking medicine.

After weeks of this treatment they have been able, with

upon other food; and all this, the writer adds, without

He says that hard boiled eggs are not half so bad as half

boiled ones, and ten times as easy to digest as raw eggs, even in egg-nog."

2. Voltaire's Pood for Indigestion, or Dyspepsia.— In the

memoirs of Count de S^gur (Vol. 1, page 168) there is the following anecdote:

My mother (the Countess de Segur) being asked by Voltaire respecting her

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health, told him that the most painful feeling she had arose from the deca^^ of

her stomach, and the difticulty of finding any kind of aliment (food) that it

could bear. Voltaire, by way of conversation, assured her that he was once

nearly a year in the same state, and believed to be incurable; but that, nevertheless, a very simple remedy had restored him.

It consisted in taking no other

nourishment than the yolks of eggs, beaten up with flour of potatoes and water.

Though this circumstance took place as far back as about 48 years ago,

and respecting so extraordinary a personage as Voltaire, it is astonishing how little it is known, and how rarely the remedy is practiced. Its

debility, cannot be

questioned; and the

efficacy, however, in cases of

following is the mode of preparing this valuable article of food, as

recommended by Sir John Sinclair. Recipe Beat up an egg in a bowl, and

then add 6 table-spoonfuls of cold water, mixing the whole well together; thea

add 2 table-spoonfuls of the farina (flour of) potatoes, or mashed potatoes (f

have used the mashed potatoes), mixing it with the liquor in the bowl; thea

pour in as much boiling water as will convert the whole into a jelly (like starch),

and mix it well. [The author thinks it best to boil it a little, after pouring oa

the water.] It may be taken either alone, or with the addition of a little milk

sweetened with sugar, not only for breakfast, but in cases of great debility

of the stomach, or in consumptive disorders, at other meals. This dish, or

food, is light, easily digested, and extremely wholesome and nourishing. Bread

or biscuit should be taken with it, as the stomach gets stronger. Beach's Fam-

—

ily Practice.

Remarks.

—I have recommended this food for several weak patients, with

entire satisfaction; but I would say no bread, nor biscuit, should ever be eatea

by a dyspeptic, or any person in a weak or debilitated condition of the system,

from sickness, or naturally of feeble digestive powers, until at least the next

day after the baking. I will only add, that in extremely weak patients, this, if

relished,

may constitute the entire nourishment taken for days,

or weeks,

But when one tires of this, some of the

beef teas, essences, "^oups, porridges, as given under these heads in this work,

or the oatmeal gruel for invalids, or delicate children, may be used to vary

according to the necessity of the case.

the food for the sick.

The two following dishes are given by Dr. Beach, in connection with the

above food, as valuable for dyspepsia:

—

Dyspepsia, Liquid Food for. Take fresh, lean beef, cut thin,

Put it into a large-mouthed bottle or jar: add a little salt; place the bottle

in a kettle of boiling water, and let it boil 1 hour; then strain through a woolen

cloth.

(It seems to the author that a stout piece of muslin is just as good.)

There will be about 1 gill (4 ozs.) of clear, nutritious liquid. Begin by taking

1 tea-spoonful, and increase the quantity as the stomach will bear.

This has

been retained on the stomach when nothing else could. It cured an old captain

3.

1 lb.

when nearly gone with dyspepsia.

4. Dyspeptics, Excellent Food for.— Take a piece of stale wheat

bread and a little white sugar, and cover with boiling water; then cover with a.

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;

add cream or good milk.

149

This dish rests easy on the

stomach, and is very pleasant.

—This, of course, not understood to be toasted, but in simple

—to toast bread makes much the nature of freshly baked, which not

Remarks.

state

is

its

is

it

good for the healthy, and especially bad for dyspeptics or the debilitated from

any disease or cause whatever.

5. Dyspepsia and Weak Stomach, The Value of Milk and

Lime-Water for. — Milk and lime-water are now frequently prescribed by

physicians in cases of dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach, and in some

Many persons who think good bread

and milk a luxury, frequently hesitate to eat it, for the reason that the milk will

not digest readily; sourness of the stomach will often follow. But experience

proves that lime-water and milk are not only food and medicine, at an early

cases are said to prove very beneficial.

period of life, but also at a later, when, as in the case of infants, the functions

have been seriously impaired.

stomach taxed

A

-of digestion and assimilation

by gluttony, irritated by improper food, inflamed by alcohol, enfeebled by disease, or otherwise unfitted for its duties as is shown by various symptoms

attendant upon indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery and fever will

—

—

Tesume its work, and do it energetically, on an exclusive diet of bread and milk

and lime-water. A goblet of cow's milk may have 3 to, 4 table-spoonfuls of

lime-water added to it with good effect.

These ideas are fully endorsed by Dr. E. N. Chapman, who presented the

following valuable notes on the use of milk and lime-water for invalids, to the

Medical Society of the State of New York. He says: " I have used milk and

lime-water for years as a diet with my patients with great success, particularly in

cases involving nerve centres, that are acknowledged to be little under the

command of the accepted modes of treatment, such, for instance, as marasmus

anemia (debility from poor blood), paralysis, indigestion,

Also in cases where

the nutritive functions are at fault, milk with a pinch of salt, being rendered

very acceptable to the stomach by the iime, is the most digestible and nourishing food that can be given. It allays gastric (stomach) and intestinal irritability,

offers a duly prepared chyle to the absorbents, supplies the blood with all the

<a wasting of

flesh),

neuralgia, cholera, dementia (insanity), and alcoholism.

elements of nutrition, institutes healthy tisspe changes, stimulates the secreting

and excreting glands, and, in a word, provides nature with tlae material to sus* * * Milk, acted on with limetain herself in her contest with disease.

water, has a range of application almost as extensive as disease itself, whatever

Its character and whoever the patient."

Remarks.

— I trust that enough has now been said to satisfy everybody of

the value of milk in disease, and Twill add that I know it to be equally valuable

as a regular family diet.

6.

for.

Dyspeptic Invalids or Weakly Children, Oatmeal Gruel

—A Mrs. " H. K.", of Evanston, "Wyoming Territory, in writing to the

Blade, upon what Mrs. Jane F. Hollingsworth said of strained oatmeal gniel for

invalids, gives her own expeinence with it for children.

She say.s:

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Let me give mjr

Our baby was delicate; cow's milk did not agree with her while

" Nothing is better for either invalids or young children.

experience.

nursing; I began feeding her corn starch and oatmeal gruel, and now a heartier,

happier and fatter baby than ours you will seldom see, and oatmeal gruel is her

daily food.

" I take 2 table-spoonsful of oatmeal and pour on a pint, or a little more,

of boiling water;

let boil until

thick enough for jelly, then I strain it throughc

a little sieve, add 1 tea-spoonful of sugar and 3 of cream to a coffee cup ol

gruel, and it is a dish fit for a king.

" For very young children or very weak invalids of a dyspeptic character,

make thinner with water while boiling, or with cold milk, after done boiling. '*7.

Food

for Dyspeptic, or

Weakly Babes. — Boil slowly, for

2J^ hours, }4, cup of oatmeal, in 1 qt. of water, with a very little salt, the dish

being covered to prevent evaporation; then strain. A double, or rice kettle(which see) is just the thing to avoid burning. When cold, to J^ pt. of thisgruel, or food, add an equal quantity of thin cream, and 2 tea-spoonfuls of

white sugar; then, to this mixture, add 1 pt. of boiling water, and when cool

enough it is ready for use, and will set easy on the stomach, when milk and

all other food cannot be digested by a feeble or weak babe, unless aided by the

use of lime-water, as above.

8.

Drinks for Small Children Having Dyspeptic or Diar-

rheal Tendency.

— Rice-water, barley-water, oatmeal-water, made by boil-

ing a single handful of either of these to 1 qt. of water, with lemon and sugar,

should be ready in every house where there are children.

These drinks are surely

However, milk is considered better

than anything, when it is sweet and pure, and given in only small quantities at

any one time, with lime-water.

better than cold tea, which is often given.

9.

Dyspeptics, Healthy Pood for.— It is a well known fact that

meats are much more needed in winter than in the heat of summer, and the

following, written by a well known physician (Dr. Hunt, of New Jersey),

explains the whole matter so fully, I will give it a place.

Dr. Hunt, the editor

of the Newark (N. J.) Advertiser, wholly regardless of the loss of his fellowpractitioners, by " a fearful state of healthf ulness " in that vicinity, and honest as he is skillful in his professional work, gives this advice for the summer

season:

" FVuits and vegetables, with an abundance of good milk and bread, should

be the main substantials and not the mere side dishes of the table. There are

too many who simply add what the summer brings to their usual bill of fare.

They still indulge in heavy meats and stimulating condiments, adding some

badly cooked vegetables, and finishing witli the usual flatulent pastry, or mayhap a few berries; but this is an injustice both to the system and to the Providence whose blessings are showered upon us in such prodigal profusion. Meat

should now become the side dish; gravies, stews and condiments should be

utterly abandoned; and the system should be toned and purified by the tonic of

the field and garden.

Milk is better than medicine, and tlie entire pharmacopoeia contains nothing equal to what now comes to us from the true laboratory

comes to us not only with healing wing, but with a flavor for the palate

which all the French cooks in Paris could not imitate. And the offerings arrive

—

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with such glorious progressiveness! First comes the strawberry, like a blush

on the cheek of Mother Earth; then the berries and vegetables of more vigorous growth; then the stately, luscious melon, the charm and glory of the breakfast-table; then corn, which is meat in nutrition; with the juicy apple, the

pride of prince and peasant. Then we come to the pear and to the orchard

Where peaches grow with sunny dyes.

Like maiden's cheeks when blushes rise,

Where huge figs the branches bend,

Where clusters from the vine distend.

There is the feast which nature spreads.

and partake of it thankfully."

Let every man say grace in his heart,

—

10. Gaseous Dyspepsia, Simple but Effectual Remedy.

Where gas distends the stomach, or bloats the bowels, taking 15 to 20 drops

of chloroform in a little syrup, after eating, will expel the gas, and stop the fermentation in a few minutes.

Remarks. Chloroform is well known to be a very diffusive stimulant, and

hence this action of it might be expected. It is easily tried and may prove as

effectual as it is claimed to be.

(See the closing remarks on pimples, bad and

of long standing, etc., for the use of animal charcoal, with sugar, before

meals, also of soda after meals, for this gaseous condition of the stomach.)

—

11.

Cfc

Dyspepsia, or Indigestion, Very Valuable Treatment

—I am now using a very valuable medicine, or combination, on a case

where the indigestion was very bad, so much so, it might be considered real

dyspepsia; but the treatment allayed the distress so promptly, and helped, or

enabled the food to digest, so effectually that I will give the recipe.

used the following fluid preparation

I.

Solution for Dyspepsia.

First I

—Pepsin in crystals, 30 grs. glycerine, 1 oz.

;

concentrated lactic acid, J^ oz.; distilled, or soft water, 4 ozs.

;

mix.

Dose^

A tea-spoonful in 3 or 4 tea-apoonfuls of water, immediately after each meal.

Remarks.— After a week or two, as the case may improve, less, and still

may be used, say J^ tea-spckonful only, till finally cured. And in case

there is a diarrheal tendency, or any inflammatory condition of any part of the

less,

system, in which the lactic acid is not good, take the following powder, in place

of the solution, as abova

12.

Bowder fbr Dyspepsia, Diarrhea, etc.— Sub-carbonate of

bismuth, 200 grs. ;Scbeffer's,or other good pepsin, 100 grs.

and make into 20 powders.

Mix thoroughly,

Dose—Take 1 powder in a little molasses and

same as the solution;

and after some time, or suitable improvement has been made, divide a powder

water, half-and-half, immediately after each meal, the

for 2 doses, as long as needed

— This will meet very bad cases of either disease, and prove,

See the use of bismuth with Dover's

powders, in looseness of the bowels, from teething— where

effectual, although

Remarks.

generally, all that can be desired.

it is

the cause, in the case of teetliing is continued for several months, or as long as

the teething continues.

It

holds the

fort,

however, notwithstanding tliis con-

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tinuance of the cause, so it will with the pepsin here as well as in the other case.

But whether the solution or the powder is being used, if there is heat and au

uneasy or distressed condition of the stomach, it

is an

evidence that the hot

water, given next below, is called for, and will prove valuable.

13.

Hot Water for Dyspepsia. — The following item is from the

Eartford Courant, which I have since proven to be very valuable. By using

The

the hot water an hour before each meal, instead of only at breakfast.

Courant sajs: "A gentleman who is in business in this city has cured hima chronic and ugly form of dyspepsia in a very simple way. He

was given up to die; but he finally abandoned alike the doctors and the drugs,

and resorted to a method of treatment which most doctors and most persons

would laugh at as an old woman's remedy.' It was simply swallowing a teacupful of hot water before breakfast every morning. He took the water from

the cook's tea-kettle, and so hot that he could only take it by the spoonful. For

about three weeks this morning dose was repeated, the dyspepsia decreasing all

the while.

At the end of that time he could eat, he says, any breakfast or dinner

that any well person could eat had gained in weight, and has ever since been

hearty and well. His weight is now between 30 and 40 pounds greater tlian it

was during the dyspepsia sufferings; and for several years he has had no trouble

with his stomach unless it was some temporary inconvenience due to a late

supper or dining out, and in such a case a single trial of his ante-break fast remedy

was sure to set all things right. He obtained his idea from a German doctor,

and in turn recommended it to others and in every case, according to this

gentleman's account, a cure was effected.

Remarks. After seeing the above item in the Courant I have had occasion

to use the hot water personally, and to direct it for others; and I have found it

self of

'

—

—

—

—

satisfactory, if taken faithfully before each meal, instead of only at breakfast.

I

also find that heating it in summer to about 140 degrees and in winter to 145 degrees

I heat it over a small coal'oil stove, in a pint

full, which I find about the right amount to be taken at one

about

time.

It can be heated in a tea-kettle and poured into a cup or bowl but it is

tea-spoonful of

well to have a thermometer to know just what the heat is.

sugar makes it pleasant for me, but a bit of lemon juice might suit some better.

It must be followed for several months, in long standing cases, to prove of last-

F., is about the right degree of heat.

tin cup,

%

;

A

ing benefit, eating only easily digested food, and nothing that disagrees with

the stomach. The sipping of the hot water has this advantage also, it allays

the great thirst of dyspeptic patients, as well as the heat and distress in the

stomach, better than anything else I know of, contracting the lax and flabby

condition of the muscular coating of the stomach, giving tone and strength to

this organ, which immediately diffuses itself to the whole system.

Take the

hot water before each meal and at bed-time as long as you have any considerable

thirst.

Be careful, also, not to eat too much, and only at meal times,

and a cure must be the result.

(See also

Hot Water Cure for Consumption.)

APPETITE— To Increase or Restore.— Obtain valerian root, }4

or J^ lb.

Have it ground coarsely, or well bruised.

Make a tea of it by steep-

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—

ing a rounding table-spoonful of the powder in water 1 pt. Dose One to 3

table-spoonfuls just before meals, and half to a wine-glassful at bed-time.

Remarks. This plant is known as the Amsrican Greek-valerian, abscess

The

root, blue bells (from its blue flowers), sweat root, Jacob's ladder, etc.

It grows in the northern

Latin, or technical, name is polemonium reptans.

—

and was a great favorite with the Indians, the tea being given freely in

and to produce copious perspiration. It is claimed also to

cleanse the blood, and to have cured many cases of consumption.

states,

fevers, pleurisy,

PECKHAM'S GENUINE BALSAM— For Coughs, Sore

Throat, Sore Chest, Kidney DifBLeulties, "Wounds, etc.— Rosin,

,

10 lbs.

;

spirits of turpentine, 1 gal.; or, rosin,

23^ ozs.

;

turpentine, 2 ozs.,

is

—

Directions Melt the rosin in a suitable kettle, or pan,

over a stove, in the day time, so that it shall not be necessary to have a lamp,

or candle, near; and when not too hot put in the turpentine, gradually. It

must not be made over an open fire, as the gas arising from it as the turpentine is put in takes fire very readily, and would quickly fill a whole room with

its blaze, and perhaps fire the house; hence I have given these necessary preDose For

cautions.

Bottle while moderately hot, else it will run too slowly.

a grown person, take from 5 to 10 drops on sugar; children, 1 or 2, to 5 drops,

night and morning.

the same proportion.

—

Remarks.

— obtained this recipe of L.

I

S.

Robinson, of Jackson, Mich.,

who says he has made and sold thousands of dollars worth of it, claiming that

the original Peckham's balsam, and that all additional articles put in

and claimed to be an improvement, should not be used. With this balsam Mr.

Robinson claims he has made some remarkable cures in the diseases mentioned,

both internal and external, and mentions the following cases.

A mare of liis own, being in a strange pasture with some cows,

I.

The wound was long, deep and jagged, upon

"was badly hooked one night.

the side but he put some of this balsam into every part of the wound, then

sewed it up, except a little opening at the lowest point of the wound, to allow

the matter in healing to drain off. Then drove home, 30 miles, the same day,

and the wound made a very rapid healing.

II.

A remarkable case, that of a lady who had had several miscarriages,

and feared another, there being an inflammation of the parts, and also of the

neck of the bladder; but 5 to 8 drop doses, night and morning, of this balsam,

cured both difiiculties; the lady, upon a subsequent trip he was making over

that route, showing him the babe, healthy and well, and herself the same,