Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Black Eye. [ARTICLE]

Black Eye.

There Is nothing to compare with a tincture or a strong infusion of capsicum annuum, mixed with an equa: bulk of mucilage or gum arable, and with the addition of a few drops of glycerine. This should be painted all over the bruised surface with a camel’s hair pencil, and allowed to dry on, a second or third coating being applied as soon as the first is dry. If done as soon as soon as the injury is inflicted, the treatment wnl invariably. prevent the blackening of the bruised tissue. The same remedy has no equal in rheumatic, sore or stiff neck. —Medical Times.

“Tiiere is no castor oil trust,” says the New York Tribune. We are glad of it. It is good policy to purge tho commercial market reports of such laxative rumors.