Charcoal, bruised or powdered coarsely✪ Charcoal Poultice, and mixed with
bread poultice, is useful for absorbing offensive odors.
Scraped carrot, mixed with bread poultice, is used to stimu-
late a sluggish and sloughing or mortifying surface.
jYeast, mixed with bread-crumb, forms also a good poultice
for sluggish and offensive ulcers.
Mustard poultice, or sinapism, may be made several ways;
sometimes equal parts of bread-crumb or flour, and mustard
are used, but the best way is to make a tolerably thick paste
of mustard and water, spread it on stiff brown paper, and cover
with thin muslin✪ Mustard Poultice. This poultice is stronger, but requires to be
kept on the part a less time than the others. When
removed, the surface is easily cleansed bf a. soft toweL A
handy way of making a mustard plaster i s to soak a slice of
bread in water, and sprikle it with flour of mustard. A ready
and efficient sinapism is afforded by Rigollot's "mustard
leaves."
Blistering Plaster and Liquid. — ^Blistering a surface
with cantharides may be effected in two ways; one, by the
application of the ordinary blister plaster, the other by paint-
ing with blistering liquid. When the plaster is used it is usual
to leave it on the skin of an adult for eight or ten hours; when,
if it has raised a blister, this is to be cut, and the fluid having
run out, the surface is then to be covered with a piece of fine
dry wadding or carded wool✪ Blistering Plaster. This dressing being left on for
two or three days, the skin will be found healed underneath.
This plan is simple and less painful than dressing with lard or
spermaceti ointment. If desirable to "keep the blister open**
— L e., its surface discharging — it may be dressed with savine
ointmeat spread oq lint or linen.
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In the cases of young children, the blister plaster should not
be allowed to remain longer than two hours, after which period
a muslin bagful of warm bread-and-water poultice should be
laid on, and the blister will form under that. After the blister
has been cut, the surface can either be dressed with continua-
tion of the poultice, or with dry wool. A warm poultice is a
most suitable dressing for blisters, when applied for quinsy or
other sore throat.
Blistering Liquid. — As this is intended to be swift in its
actions, it should be of the strongest kind that can be purchased.
After it has been painted on for a few minutes the skin will be
seen to turn white; that is a sign that enough has been painted
on. In the course of half an hour blisters will begin to form.
These can be dressed as above directed. This mode of raising
a blister has many advantages over the plastering. It is speedy
in its operation, it is cleaner, and it is more manageable for
children and persons in a state of delerium. For cases of apo-
plexy or paralysis, where a speedy impression upon the nervous
centres is desirable, the blistering liquid possesses great advan-
tage, as it does also in acute rheumatism, in which affection the
pain is often quickly relieved by having a strip of the liquid
painted round the limb near to the swollen joint.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Charcoal, bruised or powdered coarsely, and mixed with bread poultice, is useful for absorbing offensive odors.
Scraped carrot, mixed with bread poultice, is used to stimulate a sluggish and sloughing or mortifying surface.
jYeast, mixed with bread-crumb, forms also a good poultice for sluggish and offensive ulcers.
Mustard poultice, or sinapism, may be made several ways; sometimes equal parts of bread-crumb or flour, and mustard are used, but the best way is to make a tolerably thick paste of mustard and water, spread it on stiff brown paper, and cover with thin muslin. This poultice is stronger, but requires to be kept on the part a less time than the others. When removed, the surface is easily cleansed by a soft towel. A handy way of making a mustard plaster is to soak a slice of bread in water, and sprinkle it with flour of mustard. A ready and efficient sinapism is afforded by Rigollot's "mustard leaves."
Blistering Plaster and Liquid. — Blistering a surface
with cantharides may be effected in two ways; one, by the application of the ordinary blister plaster, the other by painting with blistering liquid. When the plaster is used it is usual to leave it on the skin of an adult for eight or ten hours; when, if it has raised a blister, this is to be cut, and the fluid having run out, the surface is then to be covered with a piece of fine dry wadding or carded wool. This dressing being left on for two or three days, the skin will be found healed underneath. This plan is simple and less painful than dressing with lard or spermaceti ointment. If desirable to "keep the blister open** — L e., its surface discharging — it may be dressed with savine ointmeat spread oq lint or linen.
In the cases of young children, the blister plaster should not be allowed to remain longer than two hours, after which period a muslin bagful of warm bread-and-water poultice should be laid on, and the blister will form under that. After the blister has been cut, the surface can either be dressed with continuation of the poultice, or with dry wool. A warm poultice is a most suitable dressing for blisters, when applied for quinsy or other sore throat.
Blistering Liquid. — As this is intended to be swift in its actions, it should be of the strongest kind that can be purchased. After it has been painted on for a few minutes the skin will be seen to turn white; that is a sign that enough has been painted on. In the course of half an hour blisters will begin to form. These can be dressed as above directed. This mode of raising a blister has many advantages over the plastering. It is speedy in its operation, it is cleaner, and it is more manageable for children and persons in a state of delerium. For cases of apoplexy or paralysis, where a speedy impression upon the nervous centres is desirable, the blistering liquid possesses great advantage, as it does also in acute rheumatism, in which affection the pain is often quickly relieved by having a strip of the liquid painted round the limb near to the swollen joint.
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