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Show illLUICLVE QUALITIES OF Pl.UI'-ICIXS. Pl.UI'-ICIXS. At a reeent meeting of the New Vork Farmers' Club, a correspondent wrote of the virtues of the pumpkin, giving the following instance of its value for inflammatory rheumatism: A woman's arm was swelled to an enormous size and painfully inflamed. A poultice was made of stewed pumpkins, pump-kins, which was renewed every liliecn minutes, and in a short time produced a perfect cure. The fever drawn out by the poultices made them extremely offensive, as they were taken oil". I knew a man cured of severe inflammation inflam-mation of tho bowels by the same kind of application. I think such subjects as this propc for discussion in farmers' clubs. Dr. Snodgrass I have no doubt pumpkins make a good poultice. . Whatever holds warmth best is the most suitable, ir. Smith In my travels in Syria 1 found pumpkin seeds almost univer- saliy eaten by tho people on account of their supposed medical qualities not because they aro diuretic, but as an antidote against animalcule which infest the bowels. They arc sold in the streets as apples and nuts aro here. It is a medical fact that persons have been cured of tapeworm by tho use of pumpkin seeds. The outer skin being removed, the meats are bruised in a mortar, into an oily, pasty mass. It is ; swallowed by the patient after fasting sonic hours, and it takes the place of enyie in tuu stomacn, anu tne tapeworm tape-worm lets go its hold on the membrane and becomes gorged with this tub-stance tub-stance and in some measure probably torpid. Then a large dose of castor oil is adminislered, and the worms are ejected before they are able to renew their hold. Ex. |