The Litchfield County Post

CANCER.—Mr. Thomas Tyrrell, of Missouri, advertises that a Cancer on his nose, which had been treated without success by Dr. Smith of N. Haven, and the ablest surgeons in the western country, had been cured in the following manner; He was recommended to "use strong potash, made of the lye of the ashes of red oak bark, boiled down to the consistence of molasses, to cover the cancer with it, and in about an hour afterwards cover this with a plaster of tar, which must be removed after a few days, and if protuberances in the wound, apply more potash to these, and the plaster again, until they all disappear, after which heal the wound with any common salve." Cautery and the knife had previously been used in vain. This treatment, he says, effected a speedy and perfect cure.