AN ABSCESS.
An abscess requires the application of wsrm poultices and a cooling aperient medicine. The poultice may be made of bread and water, oatmeal or linseed meaL These should be applied till the abscess bursl3 when it should discharge freely. After it has ceased, apply moist linen for a day or two: then appiy abscrbent cotton saturated with peroxide This will draw out the poison. If the healing is slow, 4ust the abscess over with iodoform. It. is sometimes necessary, when the bursting is slow and the pain great to open the abscess with the point of a lancet, which prevents much suffering.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 29 (Supplement)
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104AN ABSCESS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 29 (Supplement)
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