It may be applied as a wash to the part once or twice a day at the strength of 1-20th of the acid with water, or in the form of good cider vinegar.
The manufactured vinegar of the cities does not usually contain acetic acid.
Arum Triphyllum is a specific to allay the inflammation and excessive pain in scrofulous swellings of the neck, (Kings Evil.) The pure drug in powder, wet with warm water, or the green root bruised so as to form a poultice, is to be applied over the swelling. It soon discusses the swelling, or if pus has already formed, allays the the pain, and brings the pus to the surface, and if continued, disposes it to heal rapidly.
Baptisia Tinctoria applied as a poultice either in the powdered drug, or with some other substance wet with the infusion or tr., arrests gangrene in a short time. It is especially useful for threatened or actual gangrene arising from lacerated wounds or scalds with wounds, as in accidents connected with the explosion of steam boilers; when we often have scalds and lacerations in the same wound.
Hydrastus Canadensis used as a gargler in a putrid state of the throat in malignant Scarlet fever, arrests the destructive process at once.
It is also a most excellent application for inflamed eyes in the second or sub-acute stage.
PROPHYLACTICS.
(Preventives of Disease.)