"Iodide Potash 192 grains Fluid Extract Stillingia 1 ounce Fluid Extract Prickly Ash Bark 1/2 ounce Fluid Extract Yellow Dock 1 ounce Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla to make 8 ounces Mix." 8. Tetter, Reliable Remedy for.--"Turpentine 1 ounce, red precipitate 3 drams, vaselin 4 ounces. Mix, rub on the affected parts several times a day." This is a splendid ointment for a severe case of tetter. PHYSICIANS' TREATMENT for Eczema.--Water is likely to make acute cases worse. In order to cleanse the parts use water softened by starch or bran. Use oily preparations to soften the crusts and then they can be removed with water and good soap. In Chronic Sluggish Cases.--Water and strong soaps may be used. Cloths wrung from hot water and applied, will frequently relieve the itching. Use lotions in moist and salves in dry eczema. For the acute kind the remedy should be soothing, and more or less stimulating for the chronic forms. Local Treatment for the acute and sub-acute (between acute and chronic) eczema. In acute cases, with much pouring out of liquid (serum), lotions have a cooling effect. They should be frequently renewed. 1. Black Wash. Calomel 1 dram Mucilage Tragacanth 1 dram Lime water 10 ounces Mix. Can be used full strength or diluted. Bathe the affected parts several times daily for fifteen or twenty minutes with this lotion and apply oxide of zinc ointment afterwards. 2. Lead and Laudanum wash.--When the parts discharge moisture with burning feeling, and are very sensitive the following is good: Laudanum 1/2 ounce Solution of Sugar of lea 7-1/2 ounces Mix and apply externally with gauze saturated with it. 3. A solution of boric acid is also a good remedy. 4. Apply the following soothing application frequently, allowing the sediment to remain on the skin: Powdered Calamine 1 dram Oxide of Zinc 1 dram Glycerin 1 dram Lime water 6 ounces [66 MOTHERS' REMEDIES] 5. Dusting powders.--Corn, potato or rice starch powders. Mennen's baby powder is also good. Borated kind is the best for this. 6. Oxide of Zinc ointment alone, applied night and morning, is valuable in many cases. The Black wash should be used twice a day just before the oxide of zinc ointment is applied. In other cases powdered oxide of zinc is dusted over the part if the discharge is watery or profuse. 7. McCall Anderson's Ointment.-- Oxide of Bismuth 1 ounce Pure Oleic Acid 8 ounces White Wax 3 ounces Vaselin 9 ounces Oil of Rose 5 drops Make an ointment and apply. The proportions of each ingredient call be reduced one-half, for smaller amount. 8. Pastes are often borne better than ointment. The following is a good one. Lassar's paste: Starch 2 drams Oxide of Zinc 2 drams Vaselin 4 drams