Pouch, s. A small bag; a pocket.
Poult, s. A young chicken, particularly of a turkey or grouse.
Poulterer, s. One whose trade is to sell fowls ready for the table.
Poultice, s. A cataplasm, a soft mollifying application.
Poultices or cataplasms are used for promoting suppuration in inflamed tumours, and in grease, scratches, cracks, &c. The poultices commonly employed on those occasions are of the emollient kind.
| EMOLLIENT POULTICES. | ||
| No. 1. | Linseed meal | ½ lb. |
| Bran | 3 quarts. | |
| Hogs’ lard | 4 oz. | |
Boiling water enough to make a soft poultice.
No. 2. Turnips thoroughly boiled and mashed; any quantity. Linseed meal enough to form the poultice.
Either of the simple poultices may be converted into an anodyne poultice by the addition of opium; into a fomenting poultice, by the addition of yeast, and by substituting oatmeal for linseed meal: into an astringent poultice, by the addition of Goulard’s extract, sugar of lead, or powdered alum; and into a detergent poultice, by the addition of white or blue vitriol.
In obstinate cases of virulent grease, where there is much pain, and a stinking dark-coloured discharge, and especially when emollients are found ineffectual, the detergent poultice has quickly cured the disease, and in such cases even a solution of corrosive sublimate has been used with the best effect.—White.