282 STRANGLES. 



conveniently submitted to, and prepare the 



foWowing poultice. 



Take of coarse bread, barley meal, and camomile or 

 elder flowers, each a handful ; boil over the fire in 

 a sufficient quantity of milk, or the decoction for the 

 fomentation ; into which stir about a third (of the 

 'whole quantity) of white lily root, washed clean 

 and pounded to a paste ; adding tluereto of linseed 

 and fenugreek (in powder) of each an ounce, stir- 

 ring in, while hot, of turpentine two ounces, and 

 of lard four, laying it on moderately warm, an4 

 bandaging firm, ^ 



This proportion is meant for two poul- 

 tices, as the fomentation should be repeated, 

 and the application of poultice renewed, every 

 night and morning, till an opening in the 

 swelling is effected ; upon which appearance 

 of discharge let the aperture be a little en-i- 

 larged with a history, or the point of any 

 sharp instrument adequate to the purpose ; 

 afterwards dressing witli tow, spread with 

 the stable dio[estive ointment, or common 

 yellow basilicon, first made warm, and some 

 of the unguent (in preference to a tent), plen-» 

 tifuUy insinuated within the orifice, to faci- 

 litate its effect. Over this digestive, for the 

 first two or three dressings, ccritinue thepoul^r 

 tice ; by which treatment, though attended 



