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Remedy for the Tetter

Disof simple sulphur ointment and color it to a solve 1 ounce sulphuret of potash in 1 quart light-brown or chocolate color with the sub- of cold soft water; put it into a bottle and carbonate of iron, and perfume it. Apply keep it tightly corked. Bathe the eruption 5 this freely; and, if the case is severe, admin- or 6 times a day, with a sponge dipped in a litister mild alteratives in conjunction with the tle of this solution. If the tetter reappear in outward application. an excellent remedy. cold weather, repeat the treatment. This is 5487. Remedy for Barber's Itch and

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