The Louisiana Democrat

A surgeon in the English army in India has discovered a remedy very efficient in small-pox. The disease is treated as follows: When the fever has reached its highest point, and before the eruption appears, rub the chest of the patient with croton oil and tartaric ointment, which makes the eruptions on that part of the body and not the rest of it. By means of this treatment they also obtain the result of causing the eruption to break out entirely, and of preventing the disease from attacking the internal organs. Such is the treatment adopted in the English army in India, and it is considered a perfect cure.