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Bathing the legs and feet in warm water is very serviceable. Some recommend the part to be covered with meal, or flour, or yeast. Some persons recommend a poultice of cranberries powdered fine, in a raw state. A decoction of elder-leaves will promote perspiration ; applying to the part a cloth dipped in limewater. Or take gentle purgatives, as senna, manna, cream of tartar, with a little fennel seed, to prevent griping. The vapour bath is very beneficial. The marshmallow ointment is very serviceable ; also the elder ointment. Wash the parts oft with the following liquid or tincture : — Infuse 1 oz. of celandine leaves in a pint of whiskey a few hours. Apply it when there is much itching. But the best application is a poultice made of slippery elm bark. Mix the bark with milk, buttermilk, or cream. Should there be ulceration, add brewer’s yeast to the poultice. The diet should be cool and nourishing. Dr. Beach referring to a case, says, " The patient was so bad that he had to sit in a chair five or six months, day and night,” and the most eminent allopathic doctors could do him no good. “I used the pulverized willow bark, commonly called pussy willow; it was mixed with cream, under which it grew better ; it sloughed in several places nearly to the bone. When the pain almost subsided, I applied the slippery elm bark and milk, and then the Black Salve, which effected a cure in a few months.” ESPRIT DE ROSE.— Otto of roses, Yj oz. ; spirits of wine, 1 pint ; mix, and bottle. Shake frequently, Put the bottle in a warm bath till it is warm. Take out and shake up till css *75 EYE cold. If not bright, filter rapidly through fine linen. ESSENCES, &c., to Extract from Wood, Barks, Roots, Herbs, &c. — Take balm, mint, sage, or any thing you please ; put into a bottle, and pour upon them a spoonful of ether ; keep in a cool place a few hours, and then fill the bottle with cold water ; the essential oil will swim on the surface, which may be easily separated. EVERTON TOFFEE.— Fine sugar, i lb. ; butter, a ozs. ; water, a wine-glassful, and a small lemon. Boil the butter, sugar, water, and half the rind of a lemon together. Drop a little into cold water; if crisp, it is done. When the boiling has ceased stir in the Juice of the lemon. Pour it into a buttered dish about a quarter of an inch thick. Or to i lb. of fine sugar, add 2 ozs. of butter, When boiled to the crackled degree, grain it, and pour into buttered tins. It may be flavoured with ginger, pepper-mint, cloves, &c., as you like, by adding a drop or two of the respective essential oil. EVE’S PUDDING.— Take six large juicy apples ; pare, core, and chop them fine ; six ounces of bread crumbs ; six ounces of currants ; six eggs, and three or four ounces of sugar, and the rind of half a lemon shred very fine. Mix well, and boil in a mould or closely-covered pan for three hours ; serve with sweet sauce. EXCORIATIONS, Chafing. — Apply fullers earth. — Wash with a strong raspberry-leaf tea. — Apply a weak solution of brandy and salt. — The Celandine Ointment is very efficacious. EXPECTORANTS.— Medicines increasing the secretion from the lungs. EXPECTORANT SYRUP.— St. John’swort, 1 oz. ; sage, 1 oz. ; lobelia, 1 drachm. Fo?m a syrup by using sugar, or treacle. For a child six months old, a small teaspoonful, and increase by age.