BOILS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 322, 26 June 1868, Page 3

BOILS.

A boil is generally very small at first an a fellow hardly notices it, but in a few days it gets to be the biggest of the two, and the chap that has it is of very little account in comparison with his boil, which then "has him. " mysteriously upon vari" ous porions of the human body, coming when and where " they darn please" and

often in very inconvenient places. Sometimes a solitary boil is the sum total of the affliction, but frequently there is a “ruhbisoin” lot of 'em” to help the first one. a boil comes anywhere on a person, that per son always wishes it hail come somewhere else, although it would puzzle him to say just where. Some persons call then “Damhoils," but such persons are addicted to profanity—the proper name is boil. If a chap has a boil he generally gets a good deal of sympathy from others—“in a horn.” Whoever asks him what ails him laughs at him for his pains to answer, while many unfeeling persons make game of him or of his misfortune, or boil. It is very wicked to make sport of persons with boils: they cannot help it, and often feel very badly about it. Physicians don’t give boil patients much satisfaction as a general thing, although young physicians who are just beginning to practice are very fond of trying their lancets upon them. Boils are said to he “healthy,” and judging from the way they take hold, and hang on, and ache, and burn, and grow, and raise Cain generally there is no doubt they are healthy and have good constitutions. They are generally very lively and playful at night and it is very funny to see a chap with a good large one, prospecting round his couch for a place where his boil will fit in “without hurting.” Bods tend to purify the blood, strengthen the system, calm the nerves, restrain the profanity, tranquilise the spirits, inprove the temper, and beautify the appearance. They are good things for married men who spend their evenings away from hone, as they give them an op portunity to rest their night keys and get acquainted with their families. It is said that hoi's save the patient “ a fit of sickness,” hut if the sickness is not the best to have, it must be an all-fired mean thing. It is also said that a person is bettor after he has had them, and there is no doubt that one feels better after having got rid of them. Job took the find premium at the County Fair for having more acres under cultivation than any o her perso: • Shakespeare had them,and meant boils whon he said, “ One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, so fast they follow.” There are a great many remedies for boils, most of which are well worth trying, because if they don,t do any good,they dont hurt the boil. If a chap goes down street with a boil, every man he meets will toll him of a “ good ” thing for it, which are— Shoemakers’ waeks, Mrs. Winslow’s Sirup, Trix, Spaulding’s Clue, Charlotte Eusse, Cum Drops, Waterproof Blacking, Eight Blooming Cereus, Chloroform, Kisengen, &c., &c.—“ Notes by Blackwell.”