‘AND FAMILY DISPENSAY ORY. | 18s 
confiftence of a poultice or cataplafm: This mbit be applied to the fore) and re- 
newed twice a-day. | It generally ‘cleans the fore, eafes the pain, and takes away the 
difagreeable fmell, which are objects of no {mall j importance in fuch a dreadful dif. 
order. Wort, or an infufion of malt, has been recommended hot only as @ proper 
drink, but as a powerful medicine,’ in'this difeafe. Tt muft be frequently made 
freth, and the patient may take it at pleafure, Two, three, or even four, Englith 
pints of it may be drunk every day for a confiderable time. No benefit can be ex- 
pected from any medicine, in this difeafe, unlefs it be perfifted in fora long time. It 
is.of too obitinate a nature to be foon removed 5 and, when it admits of a cure at all, 
it muft be brought about by inducing an almoft total change of the habit, which 
muft always be a work of time. Setons or iffues in the neighbourhood of the can- 
cer have fometimes good effects. When all other medicines fail; recourfe mutt be 
had to opium, as a kind of folacez This will not indeed cure the difeafe, but it will 
eafe the patient’s agony, and render life more tolerable while it continues, To avoid 
this dreadful diforder, people ought to ufe wholefome food, to take fufficient exer- 
cife in the open-air, and carefully to guard againft all blows, bruifes, and every 
kind of omg upon the breafts or other glandular parts, © 
Or POISONS. 
, EVERY isi ought, in fome meafure, to be acquainted with the nature and 
cure of poifons. They are generally taken unawares, and their effects are often fo 
fudden and violent, as not to admit of delay, or allow time to procure the affiftance 
of phyficians. Happily indeed no great degree of medical knowledge is here ne- 
ceffary ; the remedies for moft poifons being generally at hand, or ealily obtained, 
and nothing but common prudence needful in the application of them. The cure 
of all poifons taken into the ftomach, without exception, depends chiefly on dif- 
charging them as foon as poffible. For this purpofe the patient thould drink 
large quantities of new milk and fallad-oil till he vomits ; or he may drink warm 
water mixed with oil. Fat broths are likewife proper, provided they‘can be got 
ready in time. Where no oil is to be had, frefh butter may be melted and mixed 
with the milk or water. Thefe thin are to be drunk as Jong as the inclination to 
vomit continues. ‘Some have drunk eight or ten quarts before the vomiting ccafed 3 
and it is never fafe to leave off drinking while one particle of the poifon remains i in 
» the Romach. ‘Thee oily or fat, fubthances not yi ih er EB ye likes 
