234 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR, 
Hemiock PovunticE.— 
Hemlock (Conium Maculatum), herb, green Sufficient, 
Slippery Him was cs weaaieas dedi abe bd hoe Sufficient. 
Boil the herb, strip off the leaf or soft part, chop soft, and 
mix sufficient slippery elm with as much of the decoction as is 
necessary to give it a consistency. 
This poultice is very usefulin swollen or enlarged glands, 
whether of the neck or any other part. In cancers or tumors, 
inflammation of the breast, orchitis, and indeed for glandular 
irritation or induration of any kind. 
FERMENTATIVE OR YEAST POULTICE.— 
SD HErY WE. areitn s aso ace n ceaccoseee MITINCIONE: 
Mix with brewers’ yeast or barm, and new milk. 
This is a most valuable poultice in all cases where it is 
desirable to hasten suppuration, or arrest the tendency to 
gangrene. 
Compounp Mustrarp PovuLticE.— 
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Mix with water, and apply as hot as possible between layers 
of soft cotton. 
This is one of the best forms of poultice for pleurisy, 
inflammation of the bowels, lumbago, or indeed for any kind 
of acute inflammatory attack. 
ComPpounD BRAN PoULTICE.— 
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slippery Elm poet eeeesenee ecevoaeeevece Equal parts. 
Mix with hot vinegar to a proper consistency, and apply to the 
part affected. 
This is excellent in severe rheumatic and gouty 
affections, particularly of the joints, and in synovitis or white 
swelling. 
