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Simple Cure for a Felon
As soon as the parts begin to swell get the tincwith cloth saturated thoroughly with the tincture of lobelia, and wrap the part affected ture, and the felon is dead. An old physician says that he has known it to cure in scores of cases, and it never fails if applied in season.