GOLDEN OINTMENT

One pound lard, eight ounces beeswax, one ounce camphor gum in five ounces alcohol, one ounce origanum, one ounce laudanum ; let all. dissolve while melting the lard and beeswax, then stir together until cold or the camphor will go off in a steam. Do not mix too hot. This will cure pain in the side by applying as a plaster. For enlarged - neck or goitre dilute with one-fourth iodine. For salt rheum apply externally and take cathartics to cleanse the blood. For scald head rub togetier one ounce golden ointment and three drachms of red precipitate, remove the hair and rub with this twice a day, each day washing with castile soap suds. For catarrh, rub the ointment up in the nose profusely, and let it remain all nights In the morning draw cold water up the nose and thi;ow it back two or three times to clean the tubernated bones. Also bathe the face and ears with cold water.