Blistering Liquid
From The housekeeper's companion, 1883
This method is cleaner and more manageable for children and those in a state of delirium.
Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 199. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
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. MEDICINAL. 285 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
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Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.