These are useful in reducing inflammation and relieving pain. They should not be used too hot, nor applied too tightly, especially to the feet.

Common Poultices

1. Bran moistened with hot water, and as much linseed meal added as will give it tenacity. - V. C.

2. Boil a quart of bran for 10 minutes with enough water to make a thin mash, then add to it 4 oz. of linseed meal: apply it in a flannel bag. - Blaine.

3. Fine bran 3 parts, linseed meal 1 part, hot water q. s.

Charcoal Poultices

1. Oatmeal 1/2 pint, linseed meal 1/2 pint, charcoal 4 oz., beer grounds q. s.

2. Carrots scraped, or carrots boiled, with charcoal powder q. s. Antiseptic. - Blaine.

Yeast Poultices

1. Linseed meal, oatmeal, boiling water, q. s.; mix, and ferment with a tablespoonful of yeast; in old grease with an offensive smell. - Blaine.

2. In gangrene. Add 2 oz. of turpentine to the last. - Blaine.

Anodyne Poultices

1. Boil poppy-heads in water, strain, and add linseed meal to stiffen it. - Youatt.

2. Sprinkle the surface of a simple poultice with laudanum.

Cleansing Poultices

Mashed turnips, not pressed, with enough linseed meal, or oatmeal, to give them consistence; or, the charcoal poultice above.

Drawing Poultices

1. Boil 2 of chopped onions in water, and add to it the crumb of a 4- loaf. - Hinds.

2. Sorrel boiled and squeezed 4 parts, onions baked in ashes 1 part, basilicon ointment 1 part; mix, and apply warm. - Vatel.

Resolvent Poultices

1. Rye meal 8 oz., prepared chalk 2 oz., vinegar 10 oz.; mix, warm, and stir, till no more gas is disengaged; apply warm. - Solleysell.

2. Linseed meal 12 oz., powdered hemlock 4 oz, muriate of ammonia 4 oz., vinegar q. s.; to indolent glandular tumours. - Lebas.

Goulard Poultices

1. To a linseed-meal poultice add 1 or 2 drs. of Goulard's extract of lead. - Youatt.

2. Bread and barley meal equal parts, Goulard water q. s., lard 4 or 6 oz. - Taplin.

Chlorine Poultice

Chloride of lime 1/2 oz., water 1 pint, linseed meal q. s.: to grease, when offensive. - Youatt.

Poultices For Grease

1. The herb cleavers (or goose-grass) beaten to a paste.

2. Mash bread and boiled turnips with stale beer, and stir in 1 oz. flour of mustard, turpentine 2 oz., linseed meal 2 oz., lard 6 oz.; night and morning. - Taplin.

Mustard Poultice

1. Mustard flour and linseed meal, equal parts; mix with sufficient hot vinegar to give a proper consistence.

2. Flour of black mustard 3 lbs., hot vinegar, or water, q. s. - Moiroud.

Rubefacient Poultice

1. Fresh horseradish root, grated, and immediately applied. - Moiroud.

2. Stronger. Old yeast 2 ., flour of black mustard 1 euphorbium powder 4 oz., vinegar q. s.; mix, and apply cold.