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Cantharides Ointment

Infuse carrots, bruised, 1 pound; flour, 1 ounce; butfor 12 hours 1 ounce avoirdupois of canthar- ter, 1 ounce. Mix them with a sufficient ides in 6 imperial fluid ounces olive oil in a quantity of hot water to form a pulp. This covered vessel. Place the vessel in boiling will be found a valuable application in ulcerawill be found a valuable application in ulcerawater for 15 minutes, press through muslin, ted sores and swellings, scrofulous sores of an and add 1 ounce melted yellow wax, stirring irritable kind, and many other inveterate ulirritable kind, and many other inveterate ulconstantly till cool. (Br. Ph.) cers. 5025. Poultice for Sprains and Bruises. Carbonate ammonia, 2 ounces; vinegar, 2 pints; proof spirits, 3 pints. Mix the ammonia and vinegar; when the effervescence ceases, add the spirit. For inflammation of Poultices.te External applications, the joints, of some standing, mix with ani used to promote suppuration, allay pain seed meal, and use as a poultice twice a day. and inflammation, resolve tumors, &c. They It is also valuable for sprains, bruises, and are generally prepared with substances capa- other injuries. ble of absorbing much water, and assuming a 5026. Charcoal Poultice. Linseed meal, pulpy consistence, so as to admit of their pound; charcoal powder, 2 ounces; hot waapplication to any surface, however irregular. ter, sufficient to give it the necessary consist- ence. Or: Soak 2 ounces bread in 1 pint to give it the necessary consist- Or: Soak 2 ounces bread in pint Their curative action principally depends on ence. the liquids with which they are moistened, boiling water; add to this, by degrees, 10 and the heat retained by the mass. The ad- drachms linseed meal; and, afterwards, 2 dition of a little lard, olive oil, or, still better, drachms powdered fresh charcoal; then sprinpowdered fresh charcoal; then springlycerine, to a poultice, promotes emollient kle 1 drachm powdered charcoal on the surcharcoal on the suraction and retards hardening. A fold or two face of the poultice. This poultice is highly of lint dipped in hot water, either simple or antiseptic; that is to say, it has great power medicated, and covered with a thin sheet of in cleansing ulcers and correcting a tendency gutta-percha, or India-rubber cloth, to prevent to mortification. The power is derived from evaporation, may often be conveniently em- the charcoal, which is remarkable for its puriwhich is remarkable for its puriployed instead of a poultice. Spongio-piline fying energy. It should be frequently re- (see No. 5039) is still better for this purpose newed. Dr. Bird, in his work on the medical than lint. The following are the principal uses of charcoal, gives numerous proofs of the poultices, but others may be found by referring efficacy of this application. Besides purifyof this application. Besides purifyto the Index. ing and healing, it conteracts the offensive smell arising from putrid sores.