A correspondent writes to the "North China Daily Mail"—For the benefit of those suffering from frostbite or chilblain may I tell you of a simple remedy, which L have tried on my child with very good effect. A few years ago, while living in Seoul, Korea, my boy was very much tormented during the cold season by that ailment. We tried various treatments to relieve him, but with little effect. A neigh-hour of ours, an old lady from the country,' gave us a quantity of dried leaves of the egg-plant, saying that these should be boiled in water and ithe decoction be applied to the affected parts several times a day. She said that this treatment would be found very good. We did not place much confidence in the remedy suggested, just to please the old lady, tried it a few times on our ailing little one. To our agreeable surprise, we found that what she said was true. In a short time our child was very much relieved and eventually completely cured of the trouble.
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