Instructions for the relief of the sick poor, in some diseases of frequent occurrence: addressed to a parochial clergyman, residing at a distance from professional aid / By a physician.

Date:
1820
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Credit: Instructions for the relief of the sick poor, in some diseases of frequent occurrence: addressed to a parochial clergyman, residing at a distance from professional aid / By a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    « with diuretic vegetables boiled in it, such as parsley-root, onions, celery, carrots. When the tumours are merely hard without being inflamed, it will be sufficient to keep a piece of thin flannel or soft calico over them in the winter and spring; but when they become inflamed and show a tendency to suppuration, a poultice of bread moistened with hot water should be applied; and after they have broken, and become open sores, this poultice should be exchanged for one made of bread and salt-water —a quarter of an ounce of common salt to a tea- cupful of water. This poultice should be ap- lied cold, except in winter, when it should be lukewarm.