Show we have known of people in this part of the country being afflicted al hobt beyond endurance with the effects of ivy poisoning fur for many years yeara just when they imagined they were relieved the irritating symptoms would burst out afresh recur recurring ting every season or whenever the patients became otherwise indisposed to such the following from f rom a correspondent in the seten Ante american rican providing it aepli applies esto io old cases cabes will be an acceptable boon bood it will at least we believe do what the writer claims in new oses ones 1 I 1 have read an article in your paper on ivy poison and as I 1 have had na caper considerable experience with ivy poison I 1 wish to give a an sure r e and sim aim pie remedy re in ed y which 11 think I 1 was the first to discover about twenty five years ago I 1 was badly poisoned by climbing trees to get wild grapes I 1 was literally poisoned all over my limos limes were swollen and broken out with little blisters my mv parents were away from home at the time 1 did not know what to do I 1 nad had heard that salt water was good I 1 could find no salt in the house but found some baking soda so I 1 thought I 1 would try that I 1 got a large wash basin put in about three quarts of water and about four ounces of soda I 1 ithen ahen bathed myself good all over it knocked the ivy poison higher than a kite I 1 was poisoned several times after that but always cured in myself self with the same remedy also I 1 enow know of many cases where they used it on my recommendation and they all were speedily cured |