When the breathing is very laboured and difficult in consequence, from fifteen to twenty leeches are to be immediately applied to the outside of the throat, and when they drop off, warm poppy fomentations constantly kept to the part.

These flowers are also frequently used externally in discutient and antiseptic fomentations, and in emollient glysters.

Sarah Gailey's life had indeed latterly developed into a continual fomentation and a continual rocking.

They begged me to prescribe for different cases of illness: bad ears, eruptions of the skin, and in the children, a considerable tendency to scrofula, etc. I ordered lukewarm baths, frequent fomentations, and the use of oil and soap, applied externally and rubbed into the body.