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Hemlock Poultice
Make a poultice of 4 ounces linseed meal in pint boiling water; spread on its surface 1 ounce extract of hemlock softened with a little hot water. This is an anodyne application for irritable and painful cancerous, scrofulous, and syphilitic sores, tumors, &c. adhere. In the preparation of plasters, the heat of a water-bath, or steam, should be alone employed.