Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1875 — Cure for a Felon. [ARTICLE]

Cure for a Felon.

We .warn our readers against paying attention to any newspaper paragraphs in reference to health and disease ; unless the name of the writer is attached. There is a scientific cure for a felon always safe, always efficacious, believed instantaneous and always: Get a physician to plunge his lancet"down to the bone. A natural felon is a bom thief; a physiological felon is a boil between the bone" and sinew, or “ tascia,” as the doctors love to talk. When a boil is under the skin only it is painful enough until it “ breaks," that is until the skin divides or bursts and lets out the, yellow matter; but when it is remembered that the sinew is as much tougher than the skin as a beef hide is tougher than paper, it is easy to see that the pain of a boil under the sinew is more terrible than one under the skin, and that it must take longer to make its way through the fascia than through the skin; hence, instead of passing man}' sleepless nights and agonizing days in waiting for the matter to be absorbed’ or make its way through the tough tendon, the educated surgeon advices the use of the lancet as above, for the cure is just as certain, and the relief from the agonizing pain is just as instantaneous, as in the ease of the extraction of an aching tooth. The cause of a felon is usually a bruise of the finger heavy enough to reach down to the bone and to inflame it.— Hall's Journal of Health.

. —A Chicago man who has got astray in the wilds of New York city says: “ The only relaxation a Western man has here is to visit the rooms of advertising agents and read the Chicago papers in order to know that the world still moves.” —Boston Globe,