PRACTICAL HO M(EOPATHY, FOR THE PEOPLE, ADAPTED TO TIIE COMPR'12EItENSION, OF THE NONPIROFESSIONAL, AND F'OR Reference by the Youmg Practitioner, INCLCDING, A TNUMBER OF 1IOST VALUABLE NEW REMEDIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF NUMEROUS DISEASES NOT 1N GENERAL USE. BY J. S. DOUiGLAS, A. Ma, M. D., Late Professor of Mat. Mled., Special Pathology and Diagnosis in the Western ltom. Med. College at Cleaveland, Ohio Fellow and Corresponding Member of the Penn. IIom. Medicai College at Philadelphia. Author of " Treatment of Intermittent Fevers." "H tomoeopathy, its Princple and Practice Explained, and Illustrated," &c. MI LWAUV A U K E E: 1862. STEREOTYPED BY SIAS & HILL, NORTH-WESTERN TYPS FOUNDRY, MILW4UKgX. PREFACE. In furnishing the public with Homoeopathic remedies, with directions for their use, it is proper to state the motives for so doing. These areFIRST.-A knowledge of the vast superiority of Homeopathic treatment, over the old system. SECONI. —A large portion of the population, of the West especially, are not within reach of a lHomoeopothic physician, and if they employ the remedies, are obliged to depend upon such l;nowledge of them as they can acquire from books, deigned for domestic use. TIIIRD.-Though there have been many works published for this purpose, they arc so large and obscure, that they perplex and confould, rather than instruct and guide, those not accustomed to medical studies. The constant call is for something short and plain. Fo'uRTH. —These large works are years behind the actual knowledge of the present day, in regard to medicines and the treatment of the most common diseases. A work is needed, corresponding to the present advanced state of medical knowledge. iv PREFACE. There will be found in this little work a considerable number of the most important remedies, not mentioned in any of these large works, and new and important applications of several others. FIFTH.-The reputation of Homoeopathic remedies has becomne so general, and the demand for them so great that the country is becoming flooded with Homooopathic quackery, under the name of " Specific hIomoeopathic Remedies," no one knowing what they are but him who prepares them. When a bottle or box is exhausted, the owner has no resource but to send to the getter-up of these nostrums, or some of iis agents, to get it replenished. The unfortunate example of this mode of quackery has been set by a medical man at the East, who has thereby forfeited his standing in the profession, an11 been very properly expelled from the American Medical Society. His example is being followed by others who have a higher regard for their own pockets than their professional reputation, or the interest of the public. All reasoning persons will prefer to know what the medicines are which tLey use, and when one is exhausted be able to replenish it at any place where IIomoeopathic medicines are kept, and at the same time enjoy the practical benefits of knowing what the remedies are which effect cures of different diseases. Besides these considerations, any reasoning person, by a moment's reflection, will be convinced how totally inadequate these "Specifics" are to care all the diseases INTRODUCTION. Most persons who have not given special attention to Homoeopathy, have very mistaken notions of it. It is very commonly thought to consist in giving very small doses. If an Allopathic physician gives very small doses, it is thought that he is almost Homoeopathic. This is a great mistake. One may give just as small doses as we do, and yet make no approach to being Homoeopathic. Homceopathy consists in treating disease according to a certain fixed law of cure. This law is expressed by the phrase —" LIKE CUREs LIKE." The meaning of this phrase is, that a medicine in small doses, will cure a disease, the like of which, the same medicine will produce on a healthy person, if given in large doses. The first inquiry which we make, when called to treat a disease, is, "What medicine will produce a disease like it, in a healthy person, if'given in large doses?" When we find such a remedy, we give it with entire confidence of success, if the disease is curable. The correctness of this law, any one can prove on himself. For example, after one has seen fevers cured in a few hours, by Gelseminum, in doses of half or quarter of a drop, let him test the correctness of this law, by taking, when he is wt 1!, five or ten drops of the X INTRODUCTION. ing upon them. Our's is a certain science-their's is an uncertain art. It will be readily seen that we cannot safely give large doses. If we did, we should produce the diseases we now cure. The accuracy of this law is proved to a demonstration, and every one may satisfy himself of it, a layman as well as a physican. And if this is a true law, then the practice of IIoinepathy is the true practice, and all others are false. A most intelligent clergyman was investigating the truth of this law, and one day called and related the following case: said he, in my young days I was in the habit of drinking wine. I have a most vivid recollection of the bursting head-ache, the parched mouth, the burning thirst, the nausea and the prostration, the morning after a hard night's drinking. I awoke a few mornings since witli all these feelings in a most distressing degree, though I had drank nothing. I related my feelings to my wife, saying that I felt-exactly as if I had a night's debauch on wine. She laughingly replied that a Homocopathic dose of wine ought to cure me. I thought it a good chance to test the truth of the principle. I took two drops of wine in solme water, and the effect was more remarkable than I ever witnessed from a dose of medicine.. In five minutes my mouth was moist, my thirst abated, my head-ache vanishing, my strength returning, and in 15 minutes I was perfectly well. Here was a beautiful illustration of the law. A iminute dose2 drops of Wine, cured, in a prompt and truly Homoepathic manner, a formidable train of symptomls, INTRODUCTION. XV tion, while a large dose produces stupor and sleep. Small doses of rhubarb, mercury and other cathartics, allay irritability of the bowels, and cure diarrhoea and dysentery, while large doses, everybody knows, produce precisely opposite effects. Very small doses of ipecac and emetic tartar, allay irritation of the stomach, and stop vomiting and cholera morbus, while large doses produce only irritation and vomiting. The one is the disease-curing, the other disease-producing, effect. Guided by this law, the physician will so administer his medicines as to secure the disease-curing effect, and avoid the disease-producing effect. Patients, well informed, will be wise enough to refuse a prescription made in violation of this law. But the Allopathic physician always aims to get the primary or diseaseproducing effect. He knows nothing of treating discase by any other method. A wise patient will say to a physician, who prescribes for him a large close ot medicine, (and all Allopathic closes are large, though they call them small): "Sir, I consulted you for the purpose of being cured, and you offer me a drug in a dose that will make me sick. The law of cure, as I understand it, makes it no part of the business of a physician to produce disease, but his exclusive business to cure it. The time is past, when the appropriate inscription on a physician's sign was a' disease manufactory,' and the proper title of the profession-' The desfruictive art of healing.' I must insist on your treating nme in harmony with the now well known laws or cure, Xviii INTRODUCTION. hand. Every Homoeopathist knew, years before cholera appeared in this country, that camplior, arsenicurn and veratrum would cure it, because these remedies had been proved on the healthy, and found to produce sy-mlptoms like those of cholera. And when cholera appeared, we treated it with the most triulmphlint success, from the very first, while Allopathic pilhysicians Awere experimenting, and their patients dying; and they are still experimenting on this and all other diseases. Even now, after so many years of experimenting, they cannot save half the proportion of patients that Holomcopathlists saved the very first year of its aptpearance. Is it strange that a man, with any feeling of humanity, Yshould be anxious to diffuse a knowledge of a system,of medicine, possessing so many advantages, and. so full.of blessings to the ieck? Finally, we feel certain that if the public mind can Tieaome imbued with the doctrines of Homcemopathy, and generally adopt it in practice, it vwill be the most effectual remedy for the now all-prevalent and destructive quackery, and be a vast saving of health and life. Try it ana then decide on its merits. LIST OF RE/MEDIES IN, FULL FAMILY CASE. NAMES. STRENGTH. CONTRACTIONS. 1 Aconitum nap................... Tinct. Acon....... 0 2 Agaricus mus.,..................3 pellets..... Agar....... 3 3 Ambra grisia..................... do.......... 6 4 Ammonium carb.,............... 3 trit....... 3 5 Apis mellifica. 3 pel................ pApi..8. 6 Ar triphyl,...... 3 trit. Arum 3 7 Arnica mont,.........., Tinct. Arn......... 0 8 Arsenicum alb.,6 pI................. Ars......... 6 9 Atropinc......................... 6 do........ Atrop...... 6 10 Belladona,.................. 3 do........ ell........ 11 Balsam coaiva,.................3 do. Bals. cop... 3 12 Brvouia alba,.... 3 do. I........ ry 3 13 Calendla,......................... Tinct........ Calend..... 0 14 Calcarea carl.................... 6 pel......... Calc........6 15 Cantharides,.................... 3 pel......... Canth. 3 16 Caulophvylin,.................. 3 trit......... Caul......3 17 Chamomilla,...................... 3 el......... Chamin...... 3 18 Chlelidlonium,.l.................. 3 do........ Clel...... 3 19 China............................ 3 do....... China. 3 20 Cocculus,......................... 3 do. Coc........ 3 21 Colocynth,....................... 3 do........ Coloc..... 3 22 Coralllun,.................... 6 pel......... Cor........ 6 23 Croton tigliu,.......... do....... Crot........ 6 24 Dulcainara,.................. 3 do... c....... 3 25 Ferrum met.,.... 6 do -.. Fer........ 6 26 Gelsemilum,.............. Tinct........ Gels........ 0 27 Glanderine,...................... 6 pel........ Gland. 6 28 Graphites,....................... 6 do........ Graph...... 6 29 LamInamelis virginica,........... Tinct....... 11am.. 0 30 Ilepar sulpluris,.................. 6 pel......... Hep........ 6 31 1Iydrastis Canadensis............. Tinct....... IIydras.... 0 32 Iguatia........................... 3 pel........ Ig. 3 33 Ipecacuanha.................. 3 do........ Ip...... 3 34 Kali hydriodicum,.............. do....... Kal hyd... 6 35 Leptandrin,...................... 3 trit......... Lept...... 3 36 Lobelia inflata,........... 3 pel.........Lob. 3 37 Macrontin,...................... 3 tritMac....... 3 38 Mercurins corros,................ 6 pei......... Merc cor... 6 39 Mercurius solub,.........6....... 6 do........ Merc. sol... 6 40 Nux Vomica.................... 3 do....... Nux.. 3 41 Phosphorus..................... 3 do....... Phos.......3 42 Phosphoric acid,................. 3 do........ Phos.ac 3 43 Podophyllin,................ 3... 3 trit.. Pod...... 3 44 Pulsatilla....................... 3 pel.. Puls.. 3 45 Rhus tox......................3 do.... Rhus...... 3 46 epia,................... 6 do Sep......... 6s........ 47 Santonine,........................ 3 trit.... Sa 3 48 Sulphur,....................... 6 pel......... Sulph 6 49 Sulphuric acid................... 3 do.......uph. Sh.ac.. 3 50 Spongia.......................... 3 do Spong. 3 51 Tartar stib....................... 3 trit. Tart........ 3 52 Veratrum,.........................3 pel.......... Verat. 3 PRACTICAL HOMUEOPATHY FOR THE PEOPLE. FEVERS In a work like this, it would be worse than useless tf treat of fevers under the various and numerous names by which they are called in medical books. We shall regard all fevers as one disease, with a number of varieties, and give the treatment for the principal different forms it assumes. The great majority of fevers in this country are, what are called bilious, or bilious remittent; because they give evidence of bilious disorder, or disordered action of the liver, and have a remission every twenty-four hours, that is, a period during which the fever is less. This usually occurs in the morning. This form of fever, after some days or only hours of languor, loss of appetite, and perhaps nausea, headache and feeling of fatigue, makes its attack by a chill more or less severe, pain in the head, back and limbs, restlessness, a feeling of weakness, bad taste of the mouth and coated tongue. Its course will depend on the treatment. Under the physicking and drugging treatment its course is generally prolonged for several weeks; often assumes at a late stage, a low, typhoid form, and is not unfrequently fatal. 26 PRACTICAL HOM(EOPATHY. on a gill of water,) in teaspoonfull doses every 3 hours, aid cont'i-e it for some days. Under this, there will generally be, after the first 24 hours, a daily abatement, and the fever will subside in a few days. If there is sleeplessness, delirium or headache, give; besides, a dose of Bell. three times a day. In fevers, in which the bilious symptoms are most prominent, such as yellowish coat of the tongue, bitter taste, feeling of fullness or tenderness in the region of the liver, along the edges of the lower ribs of the right side and pit of the stomach, costiveness, or bilious diarrhoea, high colored urine, and feeling of nausea at the stomach, Pod. or Bry. and NAx. are the remedies. One may by given alone, or both alternately, three hours apart: If, however, the fever is high, and there i-s a good deal of pain in any internal organ, Aconite must be given, either alone or alternated with Bry., until these symptoms are subdued. And here is a good place to remark, that while Gets. is the best remedy known for simple fever, Aeon. is the indispensable remedy for local inflanmmations, which often exist in in fever. This distinctioA is of great importance, and should not be forgotten. If the fever has assumed a low, typhoid character, with delirium, great weakness, dry lips, which, with the teeth, are covered with a dark crust, twitching of the tendons, and picking at the bed-clothes, give Ars. and Bell or Ars. and Hydr., 3 hours apart. Uader- this4reatment, very few fevers will continue a FEVERS. 27 week. In the severe fevers it is of great importance to have fresh air passing frequently over a ptientistd to carry off the effluvia constantly arising from the body. It has long been observed in hospitals, that patients with fevers did not do as well who were placed in a corner where a current if air could not pass over them. The whole surface should be sponied over several times a day with water of a temperature to be agreeable to the feeling. Once a day there may be a little saleratus, or soda, or ley from ashes added to the water. During the continuance of thle fever there should be a total abstinence from food, except water gruel, rice-water, barley water, or similar things, made very thin for a drink; and even these had better be omitted for several days, and only water given. The linen and bed-clothes should be changed daily. The patient should be kept entirely quiet, undisturbed by noise, and especially by conversation, and the room should be cool and not disagreeably light. After recovery commences, if tAe bowels are costive, give a dose of Nuix. v. every nigh'l. Intermittent Fever —-Chill Fever. TREATFMENT. —During the chill and fever, give Gels. as above. During the intermissions if there is bilious derang~ement such as coated tongue, impaired appetite, head-ache and feeling of illness, give Ipecac. and Pod. alternately every three or four hours; or.Ipecac and Nux. for aaman, arl Ipecac and Paels. for woman and children. FEVERS. 29 day, but may be seen in thickly scattered, red points over the tongue on the first day. The excess of fever often produces delirium. There is usually some soreness of the throat. This is the simplest form of the disease andtthe mildest. TrpEAT5IENT. —ACOtite and Bell. are the chief remedies, alternated every 2 cr 3 hours. Whenever the skin is very hot and dry, it shou!ld be frequently bathed all over with water of a temperature to suit the feelings of the patient. This, if frequently done, in a remarkable degree, diminishes the fever and quiets the nervous irritability. After a good bathing, the patient will frequently recover from his deliriunl, become quiet and fall asleep, while the pulse falls froml 10 to 20 in the minute. I have practiced this free bathing in this disease, frequently with cold water, for thirty years. The fear that will make the eruption "''strike in," is totally without foundation. A chill should, of course, be avoided. This is a more severe form of the disease in which soreness and swelling of throat is a proiminent srumptom. The throat is swollen inside and out. Swallowing is painful and -difici lt. If the inner surface of the throat is examined, it will be f,,;u!d red, inflamed and often covered with a membra,:ne, in patches of a dirty white, or ash, or yellowishl color. The fever is high and the pulse quick. Thlere is more prostration of strength than in the simple form, and more pains. c2 DIPTil"RIA. 31 malignant scarlet fever, will be cured by this treatment. I need not say how hopeless they are with the commor treatment. I'n the w,,rst forms of the disease with obstinate tenlency to gangrorie, if other remeodies fail, Glanderine should be g'venl every hour or two. It is a powerful remedly. It is said, on good authority, " In terrible cases of Scarlatina,. w1iere the odor' of' the breath is putrid, ai d tlhe moutli an: thlroat are filled with tenacious muacuns, whilet the swollen tonsils close the throat, this remcly alune, seei,ls capalble of rescuing the patient."' TI all al.igi nt, and gaoigrcoouns ulcerations, it is a relldny of great power. The trelitllnlt, giel for this disease, in ihs malignant forilm, is elquiily apliieable to the disease which has appeared ild several parts of the country under the naime of the " black tongue," or malignaLnt erysipelas. For dropsy, tlht son-,e tim.es follows Searlatina, Ar3. oeery 4 hllours. 1) I P T II E 11 I A This disease hlia:s i: sl resciemblance, il character and symptoims, to 3Malignant Scarlattina. From its late prevalenocandl its frecquenlt futality, it is very important that its sympto-,ms and treatmlent should be well understood. In its sim}plest forms, it usually comes on with chilliness, fever and laiguor. These symptoms are attctended; vith redlcess, heat and soreness of the throat, and more or less psin on swallowing. When it appears 38 PRACTICAL HOM(EOPATIIY. of the abdomen, which is sharp and severe, often burning. The abdomen becomes sensitive and painful to the least pressure, and is more or less enlarged or swollen. A full breath is painful. There is often vomiting; the face is pale, and looks anxious and suffering. The breathing is short and quick, and the pulse quick and small: it is dangerous, and may be fatal in 2 or 3 days. TREATMENT.-During the early stage, give Gels. as in fever, and keep up a perspiration for some time, till the pain and fever abate. But if this fails of giving some relief after a few hours, give Acon.. and Bell. alternately every 2 hours, till the violence of thae disease abates; afterwards Bell. and Merc. every 3 or 4 hours. After the patient is fairly recovering, if there is constipation, give Nux at bed-time. Throughout the disease, cloths wrung out of moderately cool water, laid on the bowels and covered with flannel, and copious hot water injections greatly aid the cure. DIARRIHEA. Under this head, we do not include the disease in infants. In ordinary cases, if it is produced by improper food, Nux. and Ipecac for men, and Puls. and Ipecac for women.' A dose after each evacuation will be all that is necessary. If the discharges are copious and watery, Ars. If.not soon improved, Ars. and Verat., or Phos. acid. 40 PRACTICAL IIO03EOPATIIY. change this treatment, for it may require some days to effect a change. If nausea or vomiting'occurs, give Ipecac with the lierc., or if there is much thirst with the nausea, Ars. till the sickness subsides. An injection of wanrm water several time a day, does a good deal of good. If, after a time, the- evacuations are sometimes billious, yellow, brown or dark, give Pod.'or China. In dysentery of long standing, Pod. and Le p., alternately, are effectual remedies. SEA SICKNESS. TREATMIF.NT. —A dose of N2 ux., taken half an hour before going on board will frequently prevent this for some time. When it is felt, Nhux., Ipecac., Ars., Puls;. and Mac. are very effectual remedies. One agrees better with some persons, and another with others. Armed with these remedies none need suffer much from seasickness. In obstinate cases, Petroleunt and Silicia are sometimes necessary. rhave repeatedly provided foreign missionaries and others, about to cross the ocean, with these remedies, and have received very warm acknowledgments for the comforts they conferred and the great good they were able to do their fellow passengers with them. C O L I C-ST O M A C A CE. TREATMENT.-If this arises from indigestion or improper food, Nux. or Puls. If from cold drinks, ice cream, &c., Ars. 48 PRACTICAL HOM0EOPATHY. COLDS. Cold in the Head —Coryza, and Cold affecting the Bron. chim -Bronchitis, Bronchial Catarrh - Cold on the Lungs. TREATMENT.-If a cold affecting any of these parts comes on with a chill, or with soreness or rawness of the throat, wind-pipe or bronchiac extending into the chest, or fever, Gels. is the prompt and sovereign remedy. A single dose will often "break up" the violence of the disease, remove the inflammation and soreness, and leave only a mild loose cough, which will only require a few doses of Bry. or Puls. The patient with a cold at all severe should go to bed and keep quiet and warm till better. Medicine produces a vastly better effect when the patient is in bed, and keeps in a quiet ani passive state than when he is moving about. If a cold is confined to the head, with stoppage of the nose, Arux. is the remedy every 2 or 3 hours till relieved. If there is profuse, watery or acrid discharge from the nose, Kali hyd. is perhaps the best remedy, but Ars. and Mere. are effectual. If there is a rough, raw, sore feeling of the throat or chest, with tightness, oppressed breathing and painful cough, Gels. is the remedy till these symptoms subside.' Kali hydc. and Phos. are good remedies. When only a loose, painless cough remains, Bry., Merc. or Puts. will soon complete the cure. Abstain from food as in fever till the cold is relieved. If there is deep INFLAMMATION Of THE KIDNYS —NEPBaITIS. U promptly relieved and eventually cured by electricity. Persons who have not been able to lie down for weeks, are sometimes able to do so from a single application. COUGH. This sometimes exists without obvious inflan Bior. If nat of a consumptive character, Bry., Phos., Puls, Balsanm cop., Mac. or Aium may be taken 2 or 3 times a day. Hoarseness, without fever, will be removed-by Arn*, Sponlgia, II.par., Phos., or Kali hyd. INFLAMMATION OF TilE KIDNEYS-NEPHRITIS. This usually comes on like most inflammatory diseases, with a chill, accompanied or followed by pain in the back, not in the spine, but on one or both sides of it, that is, in the location of the kidneys, tenderness on pressure in this region, fever, nausea, often vomiting, the urine scanty and high colored, often bloodythe bowels constipated. The pain often extends down to the groin and neck of the bladder. TREATMENT.-Gels., as in other inflammatory diseases, in the early stage, is the remedy, continued a long as it gives relief. This, if commenced early, wil " break it up " by perspiration. If this has been neglected, or if the disease has continued for some time, and Gels. fails of producing the desired effect, and the pain shoots from the kidneys down to the bladder, and there is colicky pain, give Bell. every hour or two. ran stiXD-AonlB. 55 ples, delirium, drowsiness or stupor. Ther6e is' eVer with quick pulse. It is very apt to end in convu iss'when fatal. TREATMENT.-The chief remedies are Acon., Bell. -:a1d Bry. Give the two first, alternately, every two hours till the fever and other symptoms are somewhat abuated; then Bell. wad Bry. every 3 hours. Persevere in this treatment even though the improvement mnay not be very perceptible. Do not irritate and torment the patient with blisters, mustard plaisters or any other irritating applications. Shut out all strong light, avoid all noise, and especially conversation within hearing of the patient, (and the hearing is very acute in this disease); keep the room well aired and of comfortably cool temperature, and disturb and excite the patient as little as possible. Do not apply cold water to the head. I have been entirely satisfied for years, that vastly more mischief than good is dofne by cold applieations in this disease. Cloths wet in hot water may be now and then applied for a short time only, with benefit; keep the bowels free by injections of Water, and keep the feet warm. Sponge over the surface of the body with warm water, if the patient is hot and restless. 11 E A ) -A C I E. Head-ache arises from a great variety of causes and is attendced by such a variety of complications and constitlutional conditions, that it is difficult to prescribe, MALIGNANT PUSTULE. 63 is much better and more successful than that ordinarily practiced. The application of the caustic speedily 3hanges and relieves the terrible burning pain of the carbuncle, and the Ars. aids in this, and preserves the system from running down, and greatly shortens the disease. Carbuncle should never be laid open by the knife. MALIGNANT PUSTULE. This affection is of frequent occurence during some seasons, though its name is not generally known. A large number of cases have occurred during the last year. It was, for a long time, not distinguished from the carbuncle, which it considerably resembles, though essentially different. It is much smaller, and is generally located on the extremities. It seems, at first, like the bite of some insect, and the patient generally thinks it is. It is, at first, a littie, red, somewhat pointed elevation like a small boil, with the appearance of a little hole in the tip. It is painful and burning. The inflammation increases rapidly and runs up the limb. If it occurs on the toe, for example-the whole top of the foot becomes rapidly red and swollen. If it goes on, it soon has several openings in it like a carbuncle, and ends in suppuration and destruetionOfI the substance, leaving a large opening. Itis attended with pretty severe, generally burning, pain, an eonsiderablo feverish disturbance. DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 71 diseases, with chilliness and fever. Pain usually com mences in the loins, back and lower part of the bowels, extending to the groin, and thence down the limb. This commences to swell, and in two days the whole limb may be twice its natural size. Though hot and inflamed, it is not red, but of a very marked white. The feeling is hard and elastic. The disease consists of inflammation of the veins, and along the principal veins down the inside of the thigh, and back of the leg is the principal pain. These veins may be traced with the finger, enlarged and hard like a cord, and very tender. These lines are interrupted now and then by a hard knob. Under the usual treatment, the limb does not return to its natural state and size for a long time, often for years-sometimes never. It is not unfrequently followed by a dropsical state. TREATMENT.-As soon as this affection is ascertained, give Hamamelis tinct., 10 drops in a tumbler of water — teaspoonfull doses every 2 or 3 hours. Rub the limb faithfully with a wash of the same2 teaspoonsfull to a gill of water, applied as warm as possible. WThen the pain and tenderness are considerably abated, give the remedy less frequently, and apply it chiefly along the line of the hard and tender veins on the inside of the thigh, and back of the leg, by rubbing and wet cloths. Continue this treatment less and less vigorously till the soreness and pain have entirely disappeared, and rub the limb with the wash daily, till the swelling subsides. If, after this, any