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Treatment of Severe Ulcers

water, and freed from all gritty particles, is Sometimes ulcers are very irritable, tender, laid, layer by layer, over the affected part. and painful, and discharge a thin acrid fluid. If it becomes dry and falls off, fresh layers are They should be steamed every night with a applied to the cleansed surface. The irritabitter decoction , and occasionally washed ting secretion is rapidly absorbed by the clay, with an infusion of chamomile flowers, or and the contact of air prevented. The cure a strong decoction of wild cherry bark, with thus goes on rapidly. This clay ointment a little tle spirit . Apply a poultice of slippery has a decisive action in cases of fetid perselm, mixed with a strong decoction of poplar piration of the feet or armpits. A single bark, and a trifle of salt. Repeat as required. layer applied in the morning will destroy If the ulcer or ulcers are indolent, steam as all odor in the day. It remains a long before, and apply the cancer plaster (sec No. time supple, and the pieces which fall off in 5047,) with only a trifle of the white vitriol fine powder produce no inconvenience. mixed with it; or, sprinkle the ulcer with (Brit. Med. Journ.) We can corroborate Dr. powdered blood-root. Sometimes ulcers be- Schreber's observations, having used fine come very much inflamed, and assume a livid clay poultices for several years, chiefly, color; they are covered with small vesicles however, in cases of local inflammation reor blisters, as in mortification. Wash the quiring the application of cold. Rags wet in ulcer with tincture of myrrh, and apply a water, or Goulard water, so rapidly become poultice made of charcoal, yeast, slippery dry and hot that the benefit from the cold elm, ginger, and a minute portion of tincture application is completely lost. There is no of cayenne. Bear it as long as possible. dirt when the clay is enveloped in a piece of Then apply the saturnine cerate. (See No. fine linen, and is not too fluid in consistence. 4068.) (Braithwaitc.)