For Freckles.

Corrosive sublimate, seven grains; alcohol, one and a half ounces; glycerine, one and a half ounces; oil of lavender, ten drops.

This mixture is poisonous to swallow and should be kept in a safe place. Apply with camel's hair brush which can be got of the druggist at the same time the prescription is put up. It should never be applied to a raw surface. Any stain or liver spots as well as freckles would be benefited, if not entirely removed, by this remedy.

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Liver Spots.

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Answer: Brown spots are derangements of the pigment layer of the skin. Between the outer skin (epidermis) and the inner skin (corium) there is a layer known as the rete mucosum. This layer contains the pigment cells which give to the skin color. In so-called liver spots, for some unknown reason, these pigment cells, instead of being evenly distributed, seem to be bunched up in spots. Depression of the nerves is the most likely cause. Persistent massage with olive oil is a good treatment. They are not due to the liver any more than to any other vital organ.

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Erythema.

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Answer: There are two skin diseases that very closely resemble each other, erythema and eczema. Erythema might be termed a functional disease of the skin, due to the action of the direct rays of the sun, wind and heat which seem to act as irritants to erythema. Hence it comes and goes according to the seasons. Erythema is worse in the summer time and generally leaves in the winter.

Otherwise your case very closely resembles eczema. While the erythema is in progress it is often called eczema and treated for it. Whatever remedy the patient is using at the end of the fall gets the credit for curing it, but it makes its appearance again in the spring. Eczema, on the other hand, is an organic disease of the skin, stays

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Inorganic Salts.

It is estimated that the average person requires about five drachms, or three hundred grains, of inorganic salts every day. A small portion of these salts becomes a part of the tissues of which the body is composed. A deficiency in all or either of these salts, produces disease. The attempt to supply the system with the necessary. salts, when for any reason the food does not furnish them in sufficient abundance. is known as Tissue Remedies. Like all other claims made by doctors, this claim should be tested by the school of experience. People who have tried them are the best judges of their value.

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Query: My husband never was a strong man; he has had a cough for years. doctor years ago told him to drink beer, and now he is drunk or stupid most all of the time. He drinks from fifteen to twenty bottles a day. Now what shall I do to stop it? He don't have sprees, but is about the same all the time.-Mrs. E. T., N. Y.

Could you give me some idea where a cure for drink could be found that could be given without the knowledge of the person, and he be made to quit by being made sick of the taste, or in some way to get him to leave off drink?-Mrs. A. H., Wash.

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In cases where infants are especially annoyed with fermentation of food in the bowels, the preparation of buttermilk in the following manner has proved very efficacious:

One part buttermilk, and one part water. Add a teaspoonful of sugar to each pint of milk after it is diluted with water. If you can get sugar of milk it will be better, if not, ordinary sugar can be used. The sugar of milk can be obtained at the drug store. When the buttermilk is diluted with water and sweetened it should be warmed and given in the same way as you would give fresh milk. If the child is given buttermilk in this way there will be no harm to nurse it. If the child is nursed, however, it would probably be best for the mother to take half a teaspoonful of Epsom salts in half a glass of water every night. This will correct any fermentation she may have in her bowels, which so long as she nurses the child will be likely to disturb it.

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Enlargement of Prostate.

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Tear Duct Stopped.

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I have doctored them all the time with boric acid and witch-hazel. I guess I would have been unable to see at all if I had not done so. What is the cause of this almost constant weeping from my left eye? They tell me it is a common complaint with elderly people. I am sixty-six. Is there anything that can be done with it?-Mrs. E. A. A., Vt.

Answer: The trouble with your eyes is that the tear duct is stopped up. The little duct that leads from the inner corner of the ere to the back part of the nasal cavity is constantly draining the moisture formed in the eye, to the nose. When it is stopped up the moisture must overflow the lids and the bunch appears in the corner of the eye. Any doctor could pass a little silver probe