3.  Sweating, Simple Home Remedy to Produce.—­“Place a rubber sheet or blanket under the patient.  Have a simple blanket soaking in hot water and when all is ready, wring blanket as dry as possible and wrap about the patient up to the neck.  After this a dry blanket is wrapped around the patient.  Care should be taken not to have the blanket hot enough to burn the patient, but not too cool.  After a few minutes the patient is taken out, rubbed dry gently and left to rest and sleep.”  This treatment will be found very beneficial and inexpensive.

Physicians’ treatment for Foul Sweating.—­Frequent bathing, dressing powders of boric and salicylic acids, etc.

1.  Salicylic Acid 1/2 ounce
     Powdered Starch 1/2 ounce

Mix and dust on the parts.

2.  Boric acid powdered may also be used.

3.  Powdered Boric Acid and Salicylic Acid; Equal parts.

To be used as a dusting powder on the sweating parts.

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3.  One per cent solution of potassium permanganate or permanganate of potash is good applied to the parts.

Callosity or Callositas.—­This is circumscribed yellowish-white, thickened and horny patches of one of the layers of the cuticle (epidermis).

Causes—­They come as the result of the occupation or pressure, and sometimes without any seeming cause.

Symptoms.—­They occur mostly on the hands and feet and are usually sensitive.

Physicians’ treatment, for Callosity or Callositas.—­Remove the cause of the horny masses.  The latter is done by soaking them with prolonged hot water baths and scraping off the mass afterwards.  This should be continued and done frequently.

Salicylic Acid    30 grains
Collodion         4 ounce

Mix and apply with a camel’s hair pencil.

Corns. (Calvus).—­A small, flat, deep-seated, horny growth, mostly on or between the toes.

Cause.—­Usually the result of too tight or too loose shoes.  Due to pressure and rubbing.

Mothers’ remedies.—­Corns, one of the Surest Remedies.—­“Take salicylic acid, make a thick paste with flour, put on absorbent cotton and apply, leaving same on several days; soak well and corn will come out.”  This is a thoroughly tried remedy and a good one.  This is about as good a cure as there is for corns.  After this paste has been on the corn for three days, it should be removed and the feet soaked well, and the corn scraped off.

2.  Corns, Turpentine and Kerosene for.—­“A very simple remedy is to apply turpentine or kerosene oil to the affected part on going to bed.”  It is always a good plan to soak the feet well before treating the corn, as the turpentine will penetrate more quickly.

3.  Corns, to Remove Without Pain.—­

“Alcohol         1/2 ounce
Muriatic Acid      1 dram
Nitric Acid        1 dram
Oil of Rosemary    1 dram
Chloroform         2 drams
Tincture Iron      2 drams

Mix the above, and apply freely to the corn with little brush or feather until it can be removed with thumb lance.  It may require several applications.”