Show felons doctor what shall I 1 do for this felon on oil my finger it is very painful I 1 have not slept a wink for three nights wrap a piece of rock salt about the size of a abick k ory nut in several folds of cabbage 1 leaf wet paper will do and bury it in the embers hot enough to gently roast potatoes there let it lie twenty minutes during which time employ 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 berf perfectly ec aly fine till it assumes the consistence of a very soft poultice at the end of the twenty minutes remove the salt from the embers let it cool pai partially bially that it may not fly or snap remove the leaf pound the salt fine add one one tea spoon full of the pulverized salt to the soap or spread it over the surface after the soap is placed on a cloth or a piece of suet skin or the like is still better to retain the moisture and bind th the e poultice over the finger and directly oa the joint I 1 or part affected if the skin is very thick where the disease is located shave the sk n 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 mua be removed to tile the plate more water added worked as before very sort soft and returned to the felon one poultice thus mau managed is sufficient to cure any felon we have ever seen when applied in the first stages or before the matter had began to collect the pain will sometimes increase tor for an hour af aeter ter the poultice is is applied 5 but for one of those cases where the pain has not at been eased in two hours we have seen two cases where the pain has been mitigated in hi fifteen afif teen min minutes utts and we have never had occasion to make any other a application p to a felon for thirty years neither have we known of the above application being made as directed where the felon was not healed in as short a space of time as it was coming on in corroboration of out ou own experienc I 1 will add that a highly respectable P pec actable table gentleman once informed me that he had applied edthe the above poultice in more than two hundred cases and had bad never failed of a cure |