This cutaneous disease, the result of dirt and insufficient food, is communicated by the merest contact; and as this is a misfortune that any person may be exposed to, by touching in a cursory manner the person of an affected individual, it is necessary to show the means by which, with a day or two’s seclusion, it may be effectually eradicated. The intolerable itching that so remarkably distinguishes this disease, is the consequence of a very minute microscopic insect which burrows under the scarf skin of the hands and body; and all that is necessary to destroy the life of this insect, and of course cure the disease, is to block up the pores of the skin, by rubbing in some stiff simple ointment upon going to bed; use a hot bath in the morning to cleanse the body of the grease, and repeat the ointment again; and so continue the one at night, and the other in the morning till the cure is effected. For long standing cases sulphur or creosote is necessary, but for trifling cases, spermaceti ointment is quite sufficient, the hands being kept greased and gloved both day and night. ERYSIPELAS. This disease is an inflammatory affection principally of the skin, when it makes its appearance externally; it is most frequent in its attacks on women and children, and on those of an irritable habit, rather than of a full robust constitution. Erysipelas will sometimes return periodically, attacking the patient once or twice in the year, or even once in the month; and then, by its repeated attacks, it often gradually exhausts the strength, especially if the sufferer be aged, or of a bad habit of body.