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Recipe — A Fomentation for Ulcers. 



When the skin is thickened over the ulcers, so 

 Jis to confine the matter, it must be opehed with a 

 small hot iron, or a lancet. The buds in the farcy 

 are very apt to turn into foul ulcers, and the ori- 

 fices to fill with proud flesh, which may be sup- 

 pressed by touching the superfluous part with a 

 skewer dipped in butter of antimony, or aqua- 

 fortis, and afterwards by rubbfng the knots or 

 buds with the ointment (No. 3^, p. 52)^ Ihavie 

 found this ointment to be more effectual in repel- 

 ling the virus, and likewise in cleansing and heal- 

 ing the ulcers that attend this disease, than the 

 aforementioned mercurial ointment (No. 39," p. 

 62). If the part be mtich swollen, and attended 

 with considerable inflammation, it must be fo- 

 mented twice every day with the following fomen- 

 tation. 



(RECIPE, No. 40.) 



Fomentation, 



Take — Wormwood, nciarshmallow rools, plaintaiai, 

 leaves, and horseradLsh roots, of each onCj 

 handful; 



