CHILBLAIN BALM.—­Boil together ten fluid ounces olive oil, two fluid ounces Venice turpentine, and one ounce yellow wax; strain, and while still warm add, constantly stirring, two and a half drachms balsam of Peru and ten grains camphor.

CURE FOR CHILBLAIN.—­Make a strong lye by boiling wood ashes in water.  Put your feet in a small tub and cover them with the lye as hot as you can bear it.  Gradually add more lye, hotter and hotter.  Keep them in half an hour, bathing and rubbing them continually, and being very careful to keep the lye hot.

CHILBLAIN LOTION.—­Dissolve one ounce muriate of ammonia in one-half pint cider vinegar, and apply frequently.  One-half pint of alcohol may be added to this lotion with good effects.

CHILBLAIN OINTMENT.—­Take mutton tallow and lard, of each three-fourths of a pound avoirdupois; melt, in an iron vessel, and add hydrated oxide of iron, two ounces, stirring continually with an iron spoon until the mass is of a uniform black color; when nearly cool add Venice turpentine, two ounces; Armenian bole, one ounce; oil of bergamot, one drachm; rub up the bole with a little olive oil before putting it in.  Apply several times daily by putting it upon lint or linen.  It heals the worst cases in a few days.

RUSSIAN REMEDY FOR CHILBLAINS.—­Slices of the rind of fully ripe cucumbers, dried with the soft parts attached.  Previous to use they are softened by soaking them in warm water, and are then bound on the sore parts with the inner side next them, and left on all night.  This treatment is said to be adopted for both broken and unbroken chilblains.  HOW TO CURE ITCHING CHILBLAINS.—­Take hydrochloric acid, one part, and water, eight parts; mix.  Apply on going to bed.  This must not be used if the skin is broken.  Sal ammoniac, two ounces; rum, one pint; camphor, two drachms.  The affected part is wetted night and morning, and when dry is touched with a little simple ointment of any kind—­cold cream or pomatum.

Oil of turpentine, four ounces; camphor, six drachms; oil of cajeput, two drachms.  Apply with friction.

HOW TO CURE BROKEN CHILBLAINS.—­Mix together four fluid ounces collodion, one and a half fluid ounces Venice turpentine, and one fluid ounce castor oil.

HOW TO CURE CORNS.—­Take equal parts of mercurial and galbanum ointments; mix them well together, spread on a piece of soft leather, and apply it to the corns morning and evening.  In a few days benefit will be derived.  Take two ounces of gum ammoniac, two ounces of yellow wax, and six ounces of verdigris; melt them together, and spread the composition on soft leather; cut away as much of the corn as you can, then apply the plaster, and renew it every fortnight till the corn is away.  Get four ounces of white diachylon plaster, four ounces of shoemaker’s wax, and sixty drops of muriatic acid or spirits of salt.  Boil them for a few minutes in an earthen pipkin, and when cold roll the mass between the hands,