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Yeast Poultice

Take of milk, bread in crumbs, pour boiling water over it, and boil till soft, stirring it well; then take it blood-warm, 1 pint; yeast, 1 gill. Stir in from the fire, and gradually stir in a little fine slippery elm bark, to form a poultice. glycerine or sweet oil, so as to render the This is a good antiseptic and refrigerant poulantiseptic and refrigerant poultice. Applied to gangrenous ulcers, it is

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