It was with the relieved sense of having shaped a long surmise that I watched the Senora Romero make a poultice of it for my burned hand.

The pulp of roasted onions, with oil, forms an excellent anodyne and emollient poultice to suppurating tumours.

I always thought in reading of railroad accidents, that the railroad sent out a special trainload of doctors and nurses, to care for the injured, but the special train never has a doctor until the lawyers give first aid to the wounded in the way of financial poultices for the cripples.

BRUISES AND THEIR TREATMENT.The best application for a bruise, be it large or small, is moist warmth; therefore, a warm bread-and-water poultice in hot moist flannels should be put on, as they supple the skin.

This may be done by putting a few beans on it, and then by applying a large linseed-meal poultice over them.

Ordered continued applications of hot water to the poultices at feet, and clothed him up for the night.

Cocks are caponized by burning the spurs with a hot iron until the skin is broken, the wound being poulticed with potters' clay.