A CURE FOR NEURALGIA.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4586, 15 September 1883, Page 4

A CURE FOR NEURALGIA.

A correspondent, writing to London Vanity Fair, says : —"A cure for neuralgia and sciatica—and as I sm told an unfailing one—is too valuable not to be recorded. An English officer who sestved with distinction in the war with Napoleon, was once laid up in a small village in France with a severe attack of sciatica. It so happened that at the time a tinman was being employed in the house where he lodged, and that this tinman having been himself a soldier, took an interest in the officer's case, and gave him the cure, which in his instance succeeded immediately and for ever, and which I am about to set down. It is at any rate so simple as to be worth trial. Take a moderate sized potato, rather large than small, and boil it in one quart of water. Foment the part affected with the water in which the potato has been boiled as hot as it can be home, at night before goiug to bed; then crush the potato and put it on the affected part W a poultice. Wear this all night and in the morning heat the water, which should have been reserved, over again, and again foment the part with it as hot as it can be borne. This treatment may be persevered in for several days. It occasionally requires to be continued for as much as two or three weeks, but in a in a shorter or longer time it has never yet failed to be successful."