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Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

1882

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Presented as published in 1882. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
This is a very soothing application in pain of the stomach and bowels. no DOMESTIC GUIDE. SLIPPERY-ELM POULTICE. Moisten the powdered slippery-elm bark with hot water✪ Slippery-Elm Poultice. Spread and apply as directed for flax- seed meal poultice. This poultice is very light and soothing. It is therefore well adapted for applications to the eye or to burns and irritable sores. MEDICATED POULTICES. Any of the above poultices may be medicated by the admixture of various drugs. To make a poultice astringent sprinkle over the surface some of Goulard's extract, or in preparing it use a solu- tion of acetate of lead (half an ounce of sugar of lead to the quart of water), or a decoction of oak bark (an ounce of bruised bark to a pint of boiling water). To make any poultice anodyne sprinkle a little laudanum over the surface to get a stimulat- ing effect. Mix with it common salt, vinegar or port wine. To apply cold, pound up ice and put in a bladder and lay on face of poultice. MUSTARD POULTICE. Mix the ground mustard with warm water, spread evenly upon several folds of linen, and cover the surface which is to be placed next to the skin by a thin piece of gauze or cambric✪ Mustard Poultice. The length of time this poultice can be borne varies with the condition of the skin and the sen- sibility of the patient. In a few minutes after it is applied a feeling of warmth will be noticed. This sensation continues to increase until about 20 min- MEDICAL DIVISION. I I I utes, when it can be no longer borne with com- fort. It should then be removed. The mustard poultice should never be left on long enough to cause a blister. It is only intended for a counter- irritation. ARROWROOT POULTICE. Mix the arrowroot into a smooth paste with sufficient cold water. Then add enough boiling water✪ Arrowroot Poultice to make it into a thick, adhesive mass. Spread and apply as in the case of other poultices. This is a most useful application to tender and irritable places. YEAST POULTICE. Take of flaxseed meal or oatmeal i pound, yeast one-half pint✪ Yeast Poultice. Mix and heat in a pot until the mix- ture swells. Spread on linen. This yeast or fermenting poultice is used in fetid ulcers, in gangreen and mortification, as an an- tiseptic. ONION POULTICE. Boil thoroughly some corn-meal until a soft mush is produced. Cut several raw onions✪ Onion Poultice very fine. Stir the onions and juice into the hot mush, heat through, and spread upon cloth. When children are threatened with convulsions or fits the application of onion poultices to the feet and limbs is a very useful one, and may avert the attack. Onion poultices are also of service in cases of croup and catarrh in cases of young chil- dren. 112 DOMESTIC GUIDE. CHARCOAL POULTICE. Mix finely powdered, recently-burned charcoal with the bread, oatmeal or flax-seed✪ Charcoal Poultice before mak- ing into a poultice in the manner as above di- rected. The charcoal poultice is an excellent antiseptic, but subject to the objection of coloring the parts to which it is applied, and thus concealing from the eye their true condition. This defect may be remedied, however, by cov- ering the poultice before application with a piece of fine linen. ACONITE SOLUTION. Tincture of aconite I ^ ounces. Water 4 ounces. Mix — Useful in neuralgia and other affections where the pain is not deep seated. Applied by means of a compress dampened by the solution. COOLING LOTIONS. Spirits of mindacrus 2 ounces.