They use the bark of a young trunk for poulticing cuts and wounds.
They use the inner bark for poulticing a sore arm or leg, and make the inner layer of their splints of the inner bark so that a broken limb may heal healthily.
Since Kepeosatok, Meskwaki medicine man, at Tama, Iowa, used it in a certain manner for poulticing some kinds of swellings, the writer thinks this may be the use to which John Peper referred.
Sometimes warm poulticing with flaxseed meal or bran is necessary to relieve excessive fever and pain.
Rest, poulticing the feet with moistened clay, followed by astringent washes--strong white-oak bark or alum water.
The poulticing should then be continued for two or three days, but the form of the poultice should be changed, by replacing the bran with absorbent cotton and pouring the compound cresol solution on the cotton.
When poulticing fails to reduce the swelling or produce softening, the inflamed area may be rubbed once daily with camphorated oil, compound iodin ointment, or painted twice daily with Lugol's solution of iodin.
Should a crack be of old standing, and complicated by the presence of pus, a course of hot poulticing will often prove of benefit.
With the decrease in pain the poulticing may be discontinued, and the horn over the seat of the injury dressed with some antiseptic and hardening solution.
With many veterinary surgeons warm poulticing is still largely advocated and practised.
Should the moisture be due simply to the presence of the inflammatory exudate, then poulticing alone will have the desired effect, and the pain will be lessened.
When prolonged poulticing or bathing cannot be practised, then the swelling should be stimulated with a sharp cantharides blister, repeated, if the case demands it, at intervals of a few days.
That poulticingcannot be successfully there applied is self-evident.
The poulticing should be continued, therefore, until the sloughing comes about, which happens, as a rule, at about the fifth or seventh day.
We are bound to admit, however, that the treatments of poulticingand blistering are only expectant--we might almost say empirical.
On this date the foot was pared out, and a large accumulation of pus discovered, Poulticing and antiseptic dressings were continued until August 16, when a movable piece of the os pedis was found at the toe.
About January 10 she was lame, and as she had a cracked heel, was treated by poulticing for a day, and then by antiseptic lotions.
The poulticing may then be discontinued, and the openings in the sole injected with a weak solution of Tuson's spts.
Instead, poulticing is at once resorted to, to induce the discharge of the pus through its original channel.
Having given drainage to the lesion by the dependent orifice in the sole, poulticing should again be resorted to and maintained for at least three or four days.
In many cases, the poulticing cannot be continued until an opening has formed naturally, and the cure is often much accelerated by the artificial evacuation of the matter.
When the parts have become quiet, and suppuration has been established, poulticing is to be discontinued, and mild and light dressing employed.
Then the cavity should be opened freely, and by poulticing the clots and sloughs are got quit of; afterwards the parts must be supported, as also the strength of the patient.
Afterwards poulticingis continued for some days, and succeeded by other suitable applications.
But even if this accident happens final recovery is effected by poulticing the foot until a sufficient growth of horn protects the parts from injury.
But little can be done in the way of treatment, save to hurry the ripening of the abscess and its discharge by steaming with hops, hay, or similar substances and by poulticing the throat.
Poulticing the feet and applying diluted white oils by adding equal quantities of water and vinegar around the coronets are both remedial measures of great value.
The spinal rubbing and poulticing with bran will also be effective for this.
Where the trouble has lasted for years, it may be slow to heal, and the poulticing may be done only once a week.
This will often yield to the spinal rubbing and poulticing mentioned above.
These begin like warts, and in the earlier stages poulticing and soaking with weak acid almost invariably cure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poulticing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
