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effects and if a blifter be raifed in a third part of 

 the time, as is often the cafe if the plaifter be good, 

 there is no occafion to trouble the patient with it 

 for a longer time, which often gives unneceflary 

 pain, and is much more likely to caufe flrangury, 

 than if it were removed earlier. 



The drefling of blifters is worthy attention. — 

 The beft of any is a fimple plaifter of white wax 

 and olive oil, melted together by a very gentle heat, 

 and fpread thin on a rather fine linen cloth. This 

 keeps the part from the air, and does not ftick to 

 it, or caufe any irritation. It is proper, previous to 

 the application of a blifter, to examine the furface 

 qfthe plaifter, that it may be fufficiently moiftj 

 fince, if it be too dry, it will often produce no effect 

 whatfoever. If it feem dry and unpliable, it fhould 

 be gently warmed before the fire, and moiftened, 

 firft with a little fpirits of wine or brandy, and then 

 with a litde olive oil or frefh butter. We mull be 

 cautious in practice of applying blifters at all in cafes 

 of the putrid kind attended with fever, and where 

 inflammations of the urinary paflages are prefent. 



Blifters, however, are not the only forms in which 

 external ftimulants may be employed with advan- 

 tage. Itfornethnes happens, that it may be con- 

 venient to employ a remedy of quicker operation, 



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