Ssd On the remarkable Efficacy^ of Carrots 



In tl)C cases before inentioned where the carrot poultice 

 is imprpper from pe!>t-up niaiter, if the surface of the sore 

 has acquired the scorbutic taiut, a thin stratum of the car- 

 rot pouUice may be applied over that surface, and the 

 emollient poultice* over it, until that disposition is cor- 

 rected. 



The carrot poultice, as may be naturally inferred from what 

 has been said of it, may be applied with singular good effect 

 to a variety of other diseases which produce a thin, hot,- 

 acid humour on the part, viz. ophthalmia, herpes, &c. 



In old iiabitnal ulcers the carrot poultice may be applied 

 at any time when the sore is foul or ill-conditioned ; and 

 particularly when such a sore has a dry sordes on the sur- 

 face, carrot pouUice applied thin over that surface and an 

 emollient poultice over it of bread and milk, never fail to 

 bring on quickly a discharge of good-conditioned pus. 



It sometimes happens when a cure is tedious, as in soresj 

 of extensive surface, or of a languid or sluggish disposition, 

 ihat from the mere changing of the application for another 

 a short time, and then renewing the former, the sore will 

 become invigorated and more disposed to heal than before: 

 when this appears to he the case, the intervention of a few 

 t-arrot poultices will effect it, I think, better than any other 

 application, and hasten the hcahng of the sore very con- 

 siderably. 



Small obstinate sores in bad habits which resist the usual 

 tiieans are commonly brought into a a healing state by car- 

 rot poultice alone, but sometimes mpre readily when it is 

 conjoined with the use of hydrar gyrus miratus ruler; and 

 when such a sore is become clean and florid, the cure may 

 be completed by dressing with a little of the down of lint 

 loosely upon, or in the sore, and the carrot poultice over it* 



There is no circumstance in the curative art more lightly^ 

 but more erroneously thought oF than the healing of sores ; 

 this being supposed by many to depend upon the mere cir- 

 cumstance of laking off one plaster and putting on another; 

 whereas too frequently even an apparently trifling sore 

 (not arising frotn any constitutional cause and consequently 

 requiring no internal medicine") will baffle for a long time 

 the efforts of a skilful practitioner: and, indeed, I am well 

 assured, that very commonly the patient is loaded with 

 bark, &c., to the injury of his health ; whilst the sore re- 

 tnains the same, oris becoming worse, till a mode of dress- 

 iiT^ appropriate to \hat particular case is hit upon. 



* A poultice of bread and milk is, I believe, much fitter for this purpos* 

 than' one of linseed flour. 



Carrot* 



