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Treatment of Ulcers

An ulcer on the Legs. Wash them in brandy, and is an injury done to the flesh, from which apply elder leaves, changing twice a day. issues matter, or some kind of discharge, with This will dry up all the sores, though the more or less pain and inflammation. The legs were like a honey-comb. Or, poultice common ulcer should be kept clean and cool, them with rotten apples. But take also a and protected from the atmosphere, especially purge once or twice every week. in frosty or cold weather. It should be wash- 5511. Fine Clay as a Dressing to ed now and then with warm soap-water. Put Sores. Dr. Schreber, of Leipsic, recomupon it a little lint, wet occasionally with mends the use of clay as the most energetic, salt and water, and put over it the black most innocent, simple, and economical of salve. (Sce No. 4971.) Perhaps the best palliative applications to surfaces yielding dressing is the saturnine cerate. (See No. foul and moist discharges. He moreover 4938.) Poultices made of the oak bark or considers that it has a specific action in acsumach bark may be used alternately. celerating the cure. Clay softened down in