ERYSIPELAS OF THE FACE,
While the face is repeatedly washed with water, warm and cold shawl compresses should be supplied alternately, each being kept on for from half an hour to an hour. This should be repeated several times in succession. The heat will then be easily drawn downward by laying a cloth folded several times and dipped in cold water, over the whole abdomen. Some hours later, the patient should lie, for about an hour, on a cold, wet cloth, folded several times and well wrung out; while the heated face is occasionally washed with lukewarm water. In addition to small quantities of sweetened water, the patient may tatte daily half a teaspoonful of dry colt's foot leaves powdered. The leaves of this herb may likewise be laid on the patient's face; they will act as an absorbent of tho heat.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 11 September 1912, Page 2
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142ERYSIPELAS OF THE FACE, Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 11 September 1912, Page 2
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