In a sick room.

Date:
[1890?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: In a sick room. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in its place with a bandage, and not to use the rim of sticking-plaster that is usually attached to it. When the blister has well risen, the risen skin should be snipped at the lowest part, and the fluid allowed to run off, care being taken that it does not run over the healthy skin. Then apply a little dressing of pure lard or spermaceti ointment spread on a piece of lint or cotton-wool. The time that a blister takes to rise varies with different people. It may be from four to twelve hours. BROTH. Put two pounds of meat into a saucepan with cold water to cover it, salt, and a tablespoonful of pearl barley or rice. Let it boil up slowly, skim it, add a carrot and turnip, if your patient is able to take vege¬ tables in any form, and let it simmer very slowly for two or three hours. Take out the meat and veget¬ ables, take the fat off the broth, and serve it with a nice thin piece of toast. A lean piece of neck of mutton, a chicken, or the fleshy part of a knuckle of veal, are suitable to make broth of.