Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1911 — PAINFUL FINGER NAILS CURED [ARTICLE]

PAINFUL FINGER NAILS CURED

‘1 have suffered from the same trouble (painful finger nails) at different periods of my life. The first time of its occurrence," perhaps twenty-five years ago, after trying hpme remedies without getting helped, I asked my doctor to prescribe for me, but it was not for a year or more that my nails and fingers were well. The inflammation and suppuration began at the base of the finger nail. Sometimes it was so painful that I had to use a poultice to induce suppuration. After the pus was discharged the swelling would go down until the next period of Inflammation, possibly not more than a week or two afterwards. These frequent inflammations resulted in the loss of the nail. I had sometimes as many as three fingers in this Btate at one time.

“Perhaps ten years later I began again to suffer from the same trouble. Again I tried various remedies, among them a prescription from a doctor of a friend of mine, who had suffered from a like trouble. This seemed to help somewhat for a time, but itgvas not a permanent cure; next tried a prescription from my own doctor, but this was so irritating to the sensitive, diseased skin that I could not use It. I began to use Cutlcura Soap and Ointment. I had used the Cutlcura Ointment previously on my children’s scalps with good effect. I did not use the Soap exclusively, but I rubbed the Cutlcura Olhtment into the base of the nail every night thoroughly, and as often beside as I could. I had not used it but a few weeks before my nails were better, and in a short time they were apparently well. There was no more suppuration, nor Inflammation, the nails grew out clean again. One box of Cutlcura Ointment was all that I used In effecting a cure.” (Signed) Mrs. I. J. Horton, Katonah, N. Y., Apr. 13, 1910. On Sept. 21, Mrs. Horton wrote: “I have had no further return of the trouble with my finger nails.”