Note 78 — Chapter X

Sandal-wood oil is also regarded as a never-failing specific for this very troublesome eruptive disease.—I am inclined to consider that more efficacy is stated to be possessed by the Cassia alata than can be justified by actual experience, with regard to the ring-worm; for I have, since writing the above, been informed that it had often been tried upon cases at Singapore for nearly a month, without any decidedly good effect resulting from its use, although the disease had been evidently mitigated by its application: it might certainly be more efficacious if used simply bruised, without the addition of lime-juice and salt, which latter is the mode of application adopted; but the addition of the latter articles is regarded as tending to increase its efficacy in the disease.