The inflammation should be first subdued by poultices. The milder preparations (which are here placed first) should be employed in the first instance, and afterwards those for confirmed grease.

1. For scurvy heels. Goulard's extract 1/2 dr., lard 1 oz., mix. The heels should first be gently rubbed with soap and water. - Clatee.

2. For scurvy or cracked heels. Sugar of lead 1/4 oz., oxide of zinc 1/4 oz., lard or palm oil, 4 oz.

3. Melt together 3 oz., white diachylon, 4 oz. olive oil; mix and when nearly cold, add 3 drs. of sugar of lead in fine powder. First wash the heel, then apply the Astringent Lotion No. 9, and afterwards this ointment; or elder ointment 4 oz., camphor 6 drs., laudanum 2 drs., extract of lead 2 drs.; mix. - Taplin.

4. Melt yellow wax 2 oz., with sweet oil 8 oz., and add sugar of lead 1/4 oz.

5. Healing ointment for cracked heels. Lard 4 ., resin

1 ; melt together, and stir in 1 true calamine. - Clater. See also Softening and Cooling Ointments (below).

6. For cracked heels and grease. Alum 1 oz., turpentine 1 oz., lard 3 oz.; melt the turpentine and lard, and stir in the powdered alum. - V. C.

7. For grease. Venice turpentine 4 oz., wax 1 oz., lard 4 oz.; melt together, and add sugar of lead 1 oz. (or alum

2 oz.) in fine powder. - White.

8. Lard, honey, common turpentine, each 8 oz.; melt together, and add powdered alum 6 oz., white vitriol 2 oz.

9. Common turpentine 1 ; melt, and add powdered alum 1 1/2 ., bole 2 .; stir till cold; spread on brown paper, and tie over with list.

10. Lard 1/2 honey 1/2 common turpentine 1/2 ; melt, and add p. alum 1 white vitriol 2 oz.; stir till cold.

11. For confirmed grease. Common verdigris 1/2 oz., alum, sulphate of zinc, sugar of lead, of each 1/2 oz.; car 6 oz. - Blaine.

12. Citrine ointment 3 oz., lard 2 oz., turpentine 2 drs., saturated solution of nitrate of copper 2 drs. - Blaine.

13. Aegyptiacum 8 oz., lard 4 oz., sulphate of zinc in powder 1 oz.; rub together till perfectly mixed. - Las-saigne.

14. Prepared verdigris 1 oz., lard 4 oz., honey a sufficient quantity. - Delaeosse.

15. Choride of lime 1 to 2 parts; lard 3 parts; mix. To remove the fetor, in grease. - Morton.