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 a few days, and that painful complaint (the gravel) will be removed. It may be taken at am time of the day — but it is best after a meal This simple remedy can do no injury ; and it is certainly worth trying by those afflicted with the painful disease for which it is recommended.

BOIL 36 raw coffee berries for one hour in a quart of soft spring or rain water — then bruise the berries, and boil them again another hour in the same water ; add thereto a quarter of a teaspoonful of the dulcified spirit of nitre, and take daily a half pint cup of it any hour that is most convenient.

TAKE a double handful of water-melon seeds, and throw them into about a half a pint of gin : let them stand for a week in a warm place, being frequently shaken together. When so prepared take half a wine glass full two or three times a day, or as often as you require any thing to drink, at table or otherwise.

APPLY powder of white tobacco pipe clay, or French chalk, (that is steatite or soap stone) put blotting paper over it, and apply a hot iron at a little distance — This will take out much of the grease by repetition. Good ether or hot oil of turpentine will take out the remainder. Where you can venture to wash the place, a good washing with hot soap and wa-