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Remedy for Scalding

Apply a poultice of slippery elm bark and milk, and, when the inflammation has left, apply black salve. (See No. 4971.) For very slight burns, the black salve alone will cure. The slippery elm poultice is a sovereign remedy, and has moting cause of heart disease. The principal forms of rheumatism are these: When the joints about the back and loins are affected the complaint is known as lumbago; pains in the hip joints are designated sciatica.

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