As often as the swineherd cleans out the stye he should strew the floor with sand, or some thing else to absorb moisture.

The old-fashioned and apparently absurd practice of rubbing the stye with a ring, is as good and speedy a cure as that by any process of medicinal application; though the number of times it is rubbed, or the quality of the ring and direction of the strokes, has nothing to do with its success.