in ihs Cure of Ulcers and Sores. SS/ 



• Carrots inay be procured fit for use all the year round, 

 and though fittest when they have but just arrived at matu- 

 rity, are nevertheless sufficit ntly efficacious at all seasons. 

 Or they may be collected at the proper season, and pre- 

 served in sand, till the next return oi the-.Ti to a perfect 

 state. 



In defect of a pestle and mortar to pound the carrots, a 

 wooden uash-h;ind bowl, v.'iih an appropriately-formed 

 pestle of wood, Raving its base largely convex, in order to 

 bruise the carrots more readily, may be used in their stead. 

 Of late years bark and Port wine have been much more 

 sparingly used in cases of scorbutic ulcers, &c., the carrot 

 poultice, with an ordinary restorative diet, having beea 

 found to answer best. 



In large sores that require a great quantity of the carrot 

 poultice, the outer part of the poultice ijiay be rather 

 coarse, but that which applies to the sore should iu all 

 cases be a perfect pulp. 



The otily objectionable circumstance, that I know of, 

 respecting the carrot poultice as an application, is its dis- 

 positi<:n to become dry, parliculariv when used in suiall 

 quantities, as in small sores, or when the carrots are not in 

 their moit succulent, pulpy state: this circumstance, how- 

 ever, is completely obviated, by applying a stratum or por- 

 tion of the prepared carrot upon the part aficcted, and lay- 

 ing a poultice over it of linseed flour, or bread and milk, as 

 the nature of the case may seem to require. 



I have btjen induced to offer these observations to the at- 

 tention of the iniblic, from a conviction of the utility that 

 may ensue from llie knowledge of the efficacy of the carrot 

 poultice, thus prepared, being made general; which has 

 hitherto, I have good reason to thinly, been chiefly con- 

 fined to this vicinity ; where this poultice is used as well 

 in private practice as in the Infirmary, and with the most 

 eminent advantage. 



POSTSCRIPT. 



At the time this mode was originally tried here, the 

 usual, and I suppose I may say, the constant practice in 

 surgery was, to aj>ply the carrots raw as before mentioned,; 

 this manner of usn)g them being directed in all books of 

 surgery, and the practice of it confined chiefly to the pur- 

 pose of removing the ill smell or foetor of sores. 



The circumsvance that led to it was the extraordinary bad 

 cases above related ; which orjginated in a man who had ^ 

 very laige cancerous sore of the arm. wluch became so pi\. 



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