Show CF Doctor what shall I 1 do for this felon on my finger it is very painful I 1 have not slept a wink vink for three nights wrap a piece of rock salt about the size of a hickory nut in several folds of cabbage leaf wet paper will dod do and bury it in t the embers hot enough to gently roast potatoes there let it lie twenty minutes during which time employ your yourself in scraping very fine a piece as large as a black walnut of the best bar soap you can get on a plate to which add a little warm water and mash or work the whole perfectly finey finel fine till it assumes the consistence s si of a very soft poultice at the end of the twenty minutes remove the salt from the embers let it cool partially that it may not hy fly or snap remove the leaf pound the salt fine add one tea spoon full of the pul salt to the soap or spread it over the surface after the soap is placed on a cloth or a pie piece ce of skin or the like is still better to retain moisture and bind the poultice over the fin finer finger er and directly on the joint or part affected if the skin is very thick where the disease is located shave the skin thin with some sharp instrument and the poultice will operate the quicker As often as the poultice becomes dry it will increase the pain when it must be removed to the plate piaia more water added worked as before very soft and be returned to the felon one poultice thus managed is sufficient to cure an any y felon we have ever seen when applied in thi the e first stages or before matter had began to collect the pain will sometiMe sometimes 3 increase for an hour after the poultice is applied but for one of those cases where the pain has not been eased in two hours we have seen two cases where the pain has been mitigated in meen fifteen minutes and wo we have never hid oc to make any other ap application li cation catlon to a felen felon for thirty years yearn neither have ave we known of the above application being made as a where the felon was not healed in as hart rt a space of time as it vas was comin coming g on in of our own experience I 1 will add that a highly respectable gentleman once informed ire ree me that he had llad applied the above poultice in more than two hundred basei oases and had never failed of a it cure we have written the above for the benefit odthe of the saints who may be afflicted with felons and we feel confident that if they will try the above strictly according to the recipe they will get something more valuable than the yearly price of a newspaper isyou do not tell the doctor andee and he will give you yo u further advice gratis as he does this |