Alexandria Daily Advertiser

From the Orange County Republican.

An infallible cure for a FELON.

Take a piece of Rock Salt, about the size of a butternut, wrap it in a green cabbage leaf, if to be had, if not, in brown wet paper. Lay it in hot embers, and cover it as you would to roast an onion; after about twenty minutes, take it out and powder it as fine as possible.

Take hard soap and mix the powdered salt with so much of the soap, that it will make a salve. If the soap has but little turpentine in it, as may be known by the smell, then add a little turpentine, but if the soap smells pretty strong of the turpentine, none need be added. Apply the salve when made, to the part affected by the Felon, and it will in a few hours (and sometimes in a few minutes) totally destroy the Felon and remove all pain.

If the Felon has suppurated or has got matter in it, after the pain is removed it must be healed as other sores are.

The above receipt was given by Deacon Ichabod Carmickle of Lumberland. He is a man of known veracity and truth, he asserts, that for twenty years past he has made use of the foregoing salve, and in many cases where the Felon had arisen to an alarming and dangerous state, and has never failed of an effectual cure.

It was the special desire of Deacon Carmickle that the foregoing receipt should be made public.

September 11, 1806.