Under this head must be comprehended face-ache, consequent on cold, tic-douloureux and other nervous affections, erysipelas, pimples, blotches, and other eruptive diseases of the cuticle. As many of the most serious and painful affections of the face are the result of some disorganization of the system, or disease more remotely situated, such as erysipelas, tic-douloureux, and tooth-ache, these affections must be looked for under their respective heads; the present section being confined merely to those blotches and pimples that so often disfigure the countenance. These are sometimes of a scorbutic character; when they are distinguished by irregular red or reddish brown patches on the cheeks and nose, attended with heat and itching, occasionally disappearing and again returning, after the least excitement. _Treatment._—Take of corrosive sublimate two grains, spirits of wine, one ounce. Dissolve and mix, and take five drops in a wine-glass of decoction of dandelion, or wormwood tea, three times a day, for a week; when it is to be intermitted for a few days, and again resumed in the same order and dose. In bad cases, a lotion made by mixing milk of sulphur in elder-flower water, till the whole is of the consistency of cream, may be applied every night, in addition to the medicine, and washed off in the morning with warm water. Black spots and freckles are to be treated by making an emulsion of bitter almonds, and dissolving in every half-pint two grains of corrosive sublimate; and after softening the cuticle by bathing the face for a few minutes with warm water, applying the emulsion so prepared before going to bed, letting the lotion dry into the skin and washing well off in the morning. At the same time, a wine-glassful of wormwood tea should be taken every day, either two or three times. In all affections of the skin, proceeding from functional disorder in the stomach, liver, or other organs, producing blemishes on the face, there is no remedy that exercises so permanently beneficial an effect as a course of wormwood; and the infusion should, therefore, in all cases where the complexion is injured, especially in females, be made the primary and principal remedial agent. In long standing discoloration of the face, proceeding from impaired action of the liver, a steady course of alternative medicine must be persisted in for some time, if any permanent benefit is to be expected; and for this purpose a compound Plummer’s pill must be taken every night for one or two weeks, with a wine-glass of the compound decoction of sarsaparilla twice a day; alternating this treatment every week or fortnight, by one of the following pills, and a decoction of dulcamara and dandelion, in the proportion of an ounce of each to a pint of water. _Pills._ Blue Pill 1 scruple. Extract of Colocynth 1 scruple. Compound Rhubarb Pill 1 scruple. Mix and divide into twelve pills.