The use of laudanum in poultices used for ear trouble is not recommended because its soothing power may obscure symptoms that might appear and be dangerous in themselves and need quick and thorough treatment.
Poultices should not be applied for this form as they tend to hasten formation of pus.
Hot poultices will relieve the inflammation and pain.
Instead of the poultices and fomentations, the "sitz" bath can be used.
Perhaps other poultices would be easier to prepare, just as effective and save the hen.
If the hot treatment is thought best, not only hot water and poulticesof many kinds can be used, but fomentations of hops, etc.
For apoplexy and convulsions, mustard poultices of the seeds to feet, and mustard foot baths, handful of ground mustard to hot water.
This can be given frequently; ten to twenty drops of laudanum can be added to the poultices when the piles are very painful.
For local pains, fomentations, stupes andpoultices are used.
It is added to poultices as an emollient in pneumonia and skin diseases.
In very bad cases we have seen poultices of mashed potatoes made with buttermilk cleanse the diseased parts most effectually, and then the acid takes healing effect very speedily.
Buttermilk poultices (see) were used over the whole foot to thoroughly cleanse the sores.
Where we prescribe this, either for drinking or for external use inpoultices or bathing, it is very important it should be pure and fresh.
In other cases, finding that the child could not be made to comprehend anything, the sagacious heads of the household, on the supposition that its brain was too hard, tortured it with hot poultices of bread and milk to soften it.
I'd guess you best give her hot flannels an' poultices an' things while I go fetch her trunks.
I was going to tell you that marsh-mallows makes one of the finest poultices you can have.
All the long winter night she sat beside Ermine, feeding her at short intervals, laying her herb poultices on the poor brow, covering up the chilled body from which it seemed as if the shivering would never depart.
They are preferable to poultices as being better germ destroyers, but are not so comfortable.
The use of thepoultices is to be kept up until recovery, although they need not be applied so frequently as at first.
The poultices should be stopped as soon as the pain ceases, and the boil dressed as recommended above, dusted with pure boric acid and covered with clean absorbent cotton and bandage.
Poultices mixed with bichloride (corrosive sublimate) solution are less likely to encourage inoculation of neighboring areas.
The local treatment consists in applying large, hot, fresh flaxseed poultices frequently, with the removal of all dead tissue with scissors, which have been boiled in water for ten minutes.
If, at the end of another twenty-four hours, there is no improvement the finger must be freely cut open by a surgeon and the poultices continued.
If these efforts are not successful after twenty-four hours hot poultices should be resorted to, but they must be changed every twenty minutes.
The Mission Fathers used it for poultices and it is still in demand among the Spanish-Californians.
His wounds were dressed with poultices formed of bruised leaves of some plant, the natives evincing the utmost astonishment as Frank removed his clothes to enable these operations to be performed.
Then the woman removed the bandages and applied fresh poultices to his wounds, talking in low soft tones, and, as Frank had no doubt, expressing sorrow at their cause.
In young and debilitated subjects hot poultices may produce injuries of the nature of burns.
Relays of charcoal poultices are then applied until the spread of the disease is arrested.
Thank God you're better; so fer three nights I fixed poultices and put ter his side and each morning he would tell me how much better he felt.
I done driv dem nails plumb up to dey haids in de north side of a tree and put jimpson weed poultices on Jasper's foot, but it's still powerful bad off.
Sometimes they made poultices outen garlic for the pneumony.
Pounded bark for poultices has been used for boils and inflammations, and in compounding suppositories.
Red Clay “osaˈman” was also used in fabricating poultices and was supposed to help draw out the inflammation.
I am going down now to tell Sylvie to get the poultices ready," said Bianchon.
Leeches must be applied to the wasted body, the poultices and hot foot-baths, and other details of the treatment required the physical strength and devotion of the two young men.
I know my poultices did just as much good as their old dope does.
If the tumour suddenly become painful, and increase in size, indicating putrefaction of the blood, and commixture of it with puriform matter, a free incision is to be made, and poultices applied.
Poultices are of material service, particularly when the collection is advancing to maturation; and their composition is of little importance, provided they are moist, warm, and soft.
In this unhealthy species of inflammation, resolution cannot be expected; on the contrary, suppuration is the natural termination of the disease, and must be hastened by poultices and fomentations.
Poultices and fomentations may afterwards be employed, followed by the warm-water dressing, medicated or not.
Poultices are to be applied for a day or two, to clean the surface, promote the discharge, and soften the callous margins.
The evacuation of the matter affords great relief; afterwards bread poultices or water-dressings are to be applied to the wounds, the other parts should be assiduously fomented, and attention given to the position of the limb.
When healing by the first intention has failed, fomentation and poultices are generally the most grateful and beneficial applications for a day or two.
In more severe cases mustard poultices should be applied along the spine and above the fetlocks.
Hot fomentations and poultices are to be constantly used, and as soon as the presence of pus can be detected, the abscess wall is to be opened at its lowest point.
When suppuration has commenced, the process should be aided by the use of warm baths and poultices of lineseed meal or boiled turnips.
If there is inflammation, cold baths and poultices should be used; when the horn is well softened and the fever allayed, pare out the diseased horn, lightly cauterize the soft tissues beneath, and poultice the foot for two or three days.
Hot baths and poultices are to be used until the presence of pus can be determined, when the tumor is to be opened with a knife or sharp-pointed iron heated white hot.
By surgical interference the tumor is now converted into an open sore or ulcer, which, after it has been well cleaned by warm baths and poultices applied for two or three days, needs to be protected by proper dressings.
Hot fomentations or poultices are sometimes required for a day or two after an abscess has opened, and are particularly indicated when the base of the abscess is hard and indurated.
The feet are to be kept moist and the horn from drying out by the use of damp sawdust or other bedding; by occasional poultices of boiled turnips, linseed meal, etc.
If there is any indication of abscess forming, poultices of linseed meal and bran made into a paste with hot water should be applied, or a mild blistering ointment rubbed in over the swollen gland.
The formation of pus may be encouraged by the constant application of poultices for hours at a time.
As in other diseases, mustard poultices may be applied over the belly and sides of the chest, but caution must be used in the employment of blisters, as ugly ulcers may result from their action on a tissue of weakened vitality.
The swelling of the glands should be promptly treated by flaxseed poultices and bathing with warm water, and as soon as there is any evidence of the formation of matter it should be opened.
It consists, first, in the use of poulticesor baths of cold water until the horn is thoroughly softened.
I took the poultices and tossed back evil words out of my mouth.
Last week my kin stood about my couch day and night with poultices and sympathy in their hands.
The green leaves are used with other herbs to make plaisters and poultices to inflammations and swellings, and to ease all pains whatsoever, arising of heat, and for the piles also, being fried with yolks of eggs, and applied thereto.
Poultices made of it will cure sprains; fomenting with it will remove swellings; applications of the liquor will cure chafes made by saddles and harness; and its operation, in all cases, is so quick that it is hardly to be believed.
Poultices of slippery elm, applied to the feet, as hot as the animal can bear them, have sometimes produced a better result than vinegar.
Warm poultices of slippery elm or flaxseed, on the surface of which sprinkle powdered lobelia.
Ordered continued applications of hot water to the poultices at feet, and clothed him up for the night.
Immediately the slough is cast off, the poultices may be discontinued and dressing of the wound carried out.
In this case the application of hot poultices or hot baths is called for.
This is to be treated with hotpoultices or hot baths, and and soon disappears.
Warm poultices or hot baths should then be used in order to soften the surrounding parts, lessen the pressure, and ease the pain.
As in cutaneous quittor, and as in coronitis, when the pus formation is only suspected, and has not yet broken out at the coronet or elsewhere, then the first indication in treatment is the use of warm poultices or of hot baths.
The poultices were directed to be discontinued, and the parts dressed every other day with sol.
Apart from that, it is an open question whether poultices may not do actual harm in inducing suppuration in cases where, probably, it would not otherwise occur.
Three to four days later a bar shoe is nailed on (taking care that the bearing of the quarters is still eased), and the hotpoultices still continued.
Treatment withpoultices and caustic injections was useless.
The horn was pared, and antisepticpoultices applied.
Poultices are soft solid preparations used for the purpose of applying heat and moisture to localized areas of the body.
Poultices may also be made the means of applying counterirritant drugs.
So then he went home an' put poultices on his tail, I suppose," suggested Annie, impatient for every detail of the tale that must lie in the curing of that tail.
Account of Agues being cured by the Application of Poultices of recent Erigerum (Groundsel) applied to the Stomach on the Days free from the Paroxysm, which caused strong Vomiting.
Pure mustard poultices are never used in children, on account of the pain they occasion, and the too great irritation which they would cause of the delicate skin of children.
Bread poultices are less generally useful than those of linseed meal.
Poultices and warm fomentations should be applied to the injury to hasten the sloughing away of the part whose vitality has been intentionally destroyed.
Poultices made from scraped raw potatoes afford much comfort for an after treatment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poultices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
