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Potato Poultice

Boil the com- by its means, placed on the skin, accompanimon potato, mash or bruise soft, and then stir ed by heat and moisture, much more readily, in finely pulverized slippery elm bark. This and with greater cleanliness, than by means poultice has been used with success in oph- of ordinary poultices. thalmia (inflammation of the eyes) of an acute character, when other means have failed.

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