Mix enough cold water thoroughly with the mustard to make it into a thick paste ; continue to stir for two or three minutes. Spread it upon a piece of cotton. Cover the side to be applied to the patient with a piece of pocket handkerchief, or washed cotton or muslin ; fold down the edges and tack them with a needle and thread to prevent the mustard escaping. To prevent the poultice chilling the patient, hold it for a few seconds to the fire, or put it on a heated plate. Be careful not to make the poultice larger than neces- sary. A mustard poultice is generally kept on from ten to twenty minutes. When it is taken off, a piece of clean wadding should be placed on the skin, or a piece of soft cotton, or flour should be dredged over the part, and a piece of soft cotton spread over it. Bread and Milk Poultice. — Required: stale bread ; cold milk✪ Bread and Milk Poultice. SICK-ROOM COOKERY. 147 Boil stale bread for five minutes with enough milk to make it into a thick pulp. Spread it on a piece of cotton and apply it very hot, without any cloth be- tween, to the part affected. A few drops of warm oil rubbed over the part, prevents the poultice from sticking. When a bread poultice is to be applied to an open sore, it is better to use water than milk, as milk is apt to become sour. Bread poultices are cleansing and soothing. Linseed Meal Poultice. — Required: linseed meal ; boiling water✪ Linseed Meal Poultice. Heat a basin with boiling water ; place the basin in a larger one with boiling water round it to keep it hot. Place the linseed meal in the smaller basin ; stir in enough boiling water to make the meal into a moist paste. Then beat it quickly till it looks oily (about three minutes). Sew up three sides of a bag of flannel or cotton the size required ; place it on a heated dish, or the heated back of an old tray ; put the linseed meal into it; fold over and sew up the opening quickly. Apply the poultice to the affected part as hot as can be borne. If mustard is ordered with this poultice, stir a tablespoonful of dry mustard into it when nearly ready. Linseed meal poultices are especially valuable be- cause when well made they form a thick pulp from which no water trickles down to annoy the patient; they are generally given to allay inflammation. Oatmeal Poultices. — Required: oatmeal; boiling water. Make in the same way as porridge. Cnarcoal Poultice. — Required: 1 teaspoonful powdered vegetable charcoal ; a small poultice of bread and water or linseed meal, or porridge. 148 INFANT’S FOOD. Make a small poultice as already directed ; sprinkle the charcoal over it; cover with a piece of muslin and apply the charcoal side to the part affected. Good for bedsores , &-r. Fomentation of Poppy Heads and Camo- mile Flowers. Required : 4 02. poppy heads: 2 oz camomile flowers; about 1 ^ pints boiling water. ✪ Fomentation of Poppy Heads and Chamomile Flowers jreak up the heads; pour the boiling water over them; boil for about seven minutes; then add the camom.le flowers ; boil for three minutes longer; strain h0} ^T'’ keep u hot ; diP P‘eces of flannel into it and apply externally to the part affected. Good for toothache. XXVI.— INFANTS FOOD. . Infants should be fed at fixed hours by day and night at regular intervals of two to three hours for the first two months, and of three to four hours afterwards. I he intervals by night maybe lengthened sooner than the intervals by day.

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Mix enough cold water thoroughly with the mustard to make it into a thick paste ; continue to stir for two or three minutes. Spread it upon a piece of cotton. Cover the side to be applied to the patient with a piece of pocket handkerchief, or washed cotton or muslin ; fold down the edges and tack them with a needle and thread to prevent the mustard escaping. To prevent the poultice chilling the patient, hold it for a few seconds to the fire, or put it on a heated plate. Be careful not to make the poultice larger than necessary. A mustard poultice is generally kept on from ten to twenty minutes. When it is taken off, a piece of clean wadding should be placed on the skin, or a piece of soft cotton, or flour should be dredged over the part, and a piece of soft cotton spread over it. Bread and Milk Poultice. — Required: stale bread ; cold milk. Boil stale bread for five minutes with enough milk to make it into a thick pulp. Spread it on a piece of cotton and apply it very hot, without any cloth between, to the part affected. A few drops of warm oil rubbed over the part, prevents the poultice from sticking. When a bread poultice is to be applied to an open sore, it is better to use water than milk, as milk is apt to become sour. Bread poultices are cleansing and soothing. Linseed Meal Poultice. — Required: linseed meal ; boiling water. Heat a basin with boiling water ; place the basin in a larger one with boiling water round it to keep it hot. Place the linseed meal in the smaller basin ; stir in enough boiling water to make the meal into a moist paste. Then beat it quickly till it looks oily (about three minutes). Sew up three sides of a bag of flannel or cotton the size required ; place it on a heated dish, or the heated back of an old tray ; put the linseed meal into it; fold over and sew up the opening quickly. Apply the poultice to the affected part as hot as can be borne. If mustard is ordered with this poultice, stir a tablespoonful of dry mustard into it when nearly ready. Linseed meal poultices are especially valuable because when well made they form a thick pulp from which no water trickles down to annoy the patient; they are generally given to allay inflammation. Oatmeal Poultices. — Required: oatmeal; boiling water. Make in the same way as porridge. Charcoal Poultice. — Required: 1 teaspoonful powdered vegetable charcoal ; a small poultice of bread and water or linseed meal, or porridge. Make a small poultice as already directed ; sprinkle the charcoal over it; cover with a piece of muslin and apply the charcoal side to the part affected. Good for bedsores, etc. Fomentation of Poppy Heads and Camomile Flowers. Required : 4 02. poppy heads: 2 oz camomile flowers; about 1 ^ pints boiling water. jreak up the heads; pour the boiling water over them; boil for about seven minutes; then add the camom.le flowers ; boil for three minutes longer; strain h0} ^T'’ keep u hot ; diP P‘eces of flannel into it and apply externally to the part affected. Good for toothache. XXVI.— INFANTS FOOD. . Infants should be fed at fixed hours by day and night at regular intervals of two to three hours for the first two months, and of three to four hours afterwards. I he intervals by night maybe lengthened sooner than the intervals by day.

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