PAINFUL FINGER NAILS CURED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147683, 31 August 1911, Page 7

PAINFUL FINGER NAILS CURED.

"I have suffered from the same trouble (painful finger nails) at different periods of my life The first time of its occurrence, perhaps 25 years ago, after trying home remedies without getting helped, I asked my doctor to prescribe for me, but it was not for a year or more that my nails and fingers were well. The inflammation and' suppuration -began at the base of tho finger nail. Sometimes it was so painful that I had to use a poultice to induco suppuration. After the pus. was discharged the swelling would go down until the next period of inflammation, possibly not more than a week or two afterwards. These frequent inflammations resulted in the loss of the nail. I had »ometimes as many as three fingers in this statu at one time. * . "Perhaps 10 years later I began again to suffer from the same trouble. Again I tried various remedies, among _ them a prescription from a doctor of a friend of mine, who had suffered from a like trouble. This seemed to help somewhat-for a time, but it was not a permanent cure. Next tried a prescription from my own doctor, but this was so irritating to the sensitive, diseased skin that I could not use it. I began to use Cuticiira Soap and Ointment. I had used the Cuticura Ointment previously on my children's scalps; with good effect. I did not use the Soap exclusively, but I rubbed the Cuticura Ointment into the base of the nail - every night thoroughly, and as often beside as I could. I had not used it but a few weeks before my nails were s better, and in a short time they were apparently well. There was no moro suppuration, nor inflammation; the; nails grew out clean again. One box of Cuticura Ointment was all that I used in effecting a cure." (Signed) Mrs. I. J. Horton, Katonah, N.Y., U.S.A., April 13 1910. On September 21 Mrs. Horton wrote: "I have had no further return of tho trouble with .my finger nails." Send to R. Towns and Co., Sydney, N.S.W., for liberal sample of Cuticura Ointment and 32-page book on skin and scalp troubles. ■ v, . '