284 On the remarkable Efficacy of Carrots 



warm ji for application, this is best effected by placing a 

 bason containing it in a vessel of water over the fire. 



It is paniciilariy requisite ihat the carrot pouUice be ap- 

 plied as moist as can be, in order that it may not become 

 too dry by the next time of application. 



As many of the cases in which it is applied are those in 

 which the temperature of the body and the sore are consi- 

 tlerably above, or hotter than the healthy temperature, par- 

 ticular care should be taken that in such cases the poultice 

 be applied so as to produce in the patient *a sensation ot 

 coohicss ; but in ordinary cases, a sensation of warmih. 



Most cases require it to be applied twice in the day, viz. 

 every uiorning and evening; and very few indeed require it 

 oft ener. 



If the sore should require from its foulness to be washed 

 at the time of dressing, it is best done by squeezing a 

 sponge full of the liquor out of a bason containing it over 

 the sore repeatedly (catching the foul liquor in a bowl) 

 till cleansed ; the outside should then be wiped dry to the 

 edoe ; the sore itseU, ho^vevcr, should on no account be 

 touched with the sponge, but be cleansed with lint if ne- 

 cessary *. 



The liquor may be that in which the carrots have beeti 

 boiled, or in defect of that, milk and water or pure water, 

 observing that its temperature be not hotter than the sore 

 can bear with the most perfect ease to the patient. The 

 washing may be omitted unless when the sore is very foul t* 



The effect of the carrot poultice thus applied is to correct 

 the foetor or stench of ill-cniditiLued sores, and to reduce 

 them to a perfectly healthy or good-conditioned state; 

 moreover to thicken and diminish the discharge as well as 

 correct it ; hence it follows that it is particularly indicated 

 in larse sores with too thin or too copious a discharge. 



When the sore is found to be suRicientIv restored by the 

 use of the carrot poultice, it should be dressed by applying 

 fjrst a single stratum of loosely made lint, not of the close 

 compact kind which is made by an instrument ; then a 

 pledget of anv common simple cerate, spread fresh and 

 rather thick on fine cloth if the sore be very large, other- 

 wise upon fin'; lint, sufficient to cover the edges of the sore 



*• This precaution is particularly necessary in putrid cases, to avoid the 

 danger of keepiug up or reuewing tlie contagion in tlie sore 



+ It is. essential that the sore be as little exposed to the air as possible; 

 hence it is better nut to be very solicitous in cleansing the sore, the repeti- 

 tion of the poultice efiecting tliis sutlicieutly. 



completely. 



