Herpes, Tetters. This disease will be removed by the exhibition of some of the following remedies; sulphuric acid, tinc ture of cantlutrides, or black hellebore, or muriated mercury combined with tartar emetic and opium ; Plummer's pill, or a solution of gamboge in spirit of ammonia, may be given ; employing at the same time lime water, or the decoction of gusia cum, sarsaparilla, or elder. The parts should be dressed with the unguentum nitratis hydrar6yri, or with the sulphuric acid, mixed with eight times its quantity of pork lard ; and we should at the same time employ the warm bath. The pulp of cassia moistened with milk, and the cas sia saphera ofLinnzus, boiled in vinegar, are recommended upon good authority.
7'inea, Scald-head. This contagious eruption affects the whole of the hairy scalp ,and most virulent around the edges of the hair, on the back part of the head, often causing, by the acrimony of the discharge, swellings of the lym phatic glands of the neck. The first step necessary to be taken in the removal of this unpleasantcomplaint will be to shave the head close, after which it should be well fomented, and cloths moistened in a solution of liver of sulphur in lime-water, in the proportion of half an ounce of the former to a pint of the latter, should be constantly applied to the head ; or tar ointment may be employed, and the access of the air should be prevented by means of a bladder, properly fitted to the head ; or a solution of sugar of lead, or of green or blue vitriol, may be tried, and the in ternalremedies recommended in the treat ment of herpes should be employed. If
we do not succeed by these means, blisters or an issue should be applied on the head or the adjacent parts.
Peora, Itch. This consies of little watery pimples of a contagious nature, which first appear between the fingers and on the wrists ; but in process of time spreading over the whole body, except the face, attended with a great degree of itchiness, especially when warm in bed, or exposed to the beat of a fire. This disease will most certainly be cured by the application of sulphur ointment; tak. ing at the same time flour of sulphur. The unguentum calcis hydrargiri albi, or acidi sulphurici, or a solution of oxide of arsenic, or of muriated mercury, will also remove it The two last remedies should, however, be employed with much caution. A decoction of white hellebore is also a useful remedy. It may likewise be frequently cured by the ex hibition of the sulphuric acid, in doses of from thirty to sixty drops, or more, two or three times a day, and to obviate its griping it should be given in some muci laginous fluid.