1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

167

No. 356. Sores and Bruises.

Over the whole sore, or where the part is bruised, or where there is a teiicleiicj to suppuration, a poul- tice should be applied and kept on by suitable band- ages. The poultice may be made of any kind of meal, fine bran, bruised linseed, or of mashed turnips, carrots, &c. The following has been found useful as a common poultice. " Fine bran, 1 quart ; pour on it a sufficient quantity of boiling water to make a thin paste ; to this add linseed-powder enough to give it a proper consistence." The poultice may be kept on for a week or 10 days, or even longer, if necessary, charvging it once or twice a day ; and clean the wound when the poultice is removed, by washing it by means of a soft rag or linen cloth with water not more than blood-warm, (some sponges are too rough for this purpose ;) or, where the wound is deep, the water may be injected into it by a syringe, in order to clean it from the bottom. In the course of a few days, when the wound, by care and proper management with the poultices, begins to put on a healthy appearance, and seems to be clean and of a reddish colour, not black or bloody, then there may be applied an ointment made of tallow, linseed-oil, beeswax, and hog's lard, in such proportion as to make it of a consistence somewhat firmer than butter. The ointment should be spread on some soft clean tow ; and when applied No. 357. Ointment