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206, although a simple piece of wood—an ordinary lucifer match—will do. On the acid first touching the ulcer, the pain for an instant will be very severe, but it becomes much less acute on subsequent applications, of which there should be several to render the destruction complete. Great care must be taken to prevent the acid from touching the neighboring surfaces, which should be protected by dry lint or other material. When it is too late to apply the acid, cloths wet in water should be kept on the parts affected, and often changed. When the application of acid has produced suppuration, the wet (linen) cloths should also be employed. This, with the perfect cleanliness of the parts, and perfect cleanliness of the cloths used, and careful attention to the general health, will always result in a cure."—John Cowan, M. D.

A physician of long experience with these diseases informed the writer that if a piece of absorbent cotton, wet in "Black Wash," which any druggist or physician can prescribe, is kept on the sore continually, night and day, the disease germ will be destroyed