So in all ages have the simple reasoned, in the childlike hope of finding in the unfamiliar an alleviation of their sorrows.
By general agreement the rural pharmacopoeia of Provence pronounces the _tigno_ to be the best of remedies against chilblains.

The method of employment is of the simplest.

The nest is cut in two, squeezed and the affected part is rubbed with the cut surface as the juices flow from it.

This specific, I am told, is sovereign.

All sufferers from blue and swollen fingers should without fail, according to traditional usage, have recourse to the _tigno_.
Is it really efficacious?
Despite the general belief, I venture to doubt it, after fruitless experiments on my own fingers and those of other members of my household during the winter of 1895, when the severe and persistent cold produced an abundant crop of chilblains.