The application of finely pulverized common salt, triturated with an equal part of superfine flour, acts very beneficially on burns. It seems to have the specific effect to "extract the heat," literally putting out the fire. It is particularly useful for deep burns where the surface is abraded. Some may suppose this would be severe and cause too much pain when applied to a raw surface, but so far from that being the case, it is a most soothing application. It often so changes the condition of even the severest burns, in a short time, as to render them of no more importance and no more dangerous than ordinary abrasions to the same extent, by causes unconnected with heat. _Urtica urens_ is directed for burns, and is useful, but the _Urtica dioica_ is better. For
That follow freezing or chilling the feet, causing most distressing uneasiness and itching of the feet and toes, take these remedies, _Rhus_ and _Apis_, the former at night and the latter in the morning. In bad cases, they should be used once in six hours. Applications of _Oil of Arnica_ to the affected parts at night, warming them before a fire, will serve greatly to palliate the sufferings, and frequently effect a perfect cure. The _Urtica Dioica_ will relieve recent cases, immediately, and is one of the best remedies for the chronic affection. It should be taken at the 2d dilution, and the tincture applied to the affected part every night.
This arises generally, from inflammation of the mucous membrane of the _Larynx_, in ordinary cases but slight. It is a frequent accompaniment of Bronchitis.
The remedies most useful, and those which will, in almost all ordinary cases, remove this affection at once, are _Arum tri._ and _Copaiva_, to be taken a dose every three hours in alternation.
If there is present a dry hacking cough, it will be well to take _Bell._ in the interval between the other medicines, for a day, or until the cough is relieved, or changed to a moist condition.
Though this affection is not strictly what is called "brain fever," it is attended with more or less general fever, while in what is called "Brain fever," there is great irritation of the brain, requiring in many respects similar treatment. As the treatment proper for inflammation of the brain, with some slight modifications in relation to the existing fever, will be applicable to both, I shall treat of them under one head.