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 of vinegar and water, will often relieve the heat and burning.

One cannot examine too suspiciously any eruption or spot on the face. Sometimes the neglect of an apparently insignificant pimple has resulted most sadly.

There is a terrible disease called significantly lupus, the wolf, on account of the fearful ravages it causes when once established. Not another complaint in the long and dismal catalogue of maladies leads to such horrible deformity, gnawing, as it does, flesh, bone, bloodvessels, one after another, quite away. We speak of it with the greater emphasis because its victims are most commonly young, robust looking, previously healthy women, and because at its outset it masks itself under such an insignificant form, that it is apt to be overlooked.

"Such is the deceptive mode of its approach," says the English surgeon, Mr. Thomas Hunt, "that the physician is almost as liable as the patient to mistake it at first for some trifling disease." It commences nearly always with a small tender pimple or sore spot on, close by, or within the nose. Whenever such a one is noticed, it is of the utmost importance to institute a close examination, "for," says the same writer, "if it should prove to be lupus, a brief delay will be sure to produce more or less deformity, and the