Moderate pressure, by means of adhesive plaster, conjoined with the application of cold water, is one of the best remedies for the mild scrophulous ulcer, when it is situated so, that this can be used. When it is not, then dusting the part thickly with cerussa, containing a sixth part of powdered alum, may be had recourse to. A piece of dry lint is next to be applied, and a compress bound down, with such pressure as can be used. It is sometimes useful to dip the compress in cold water, and renew it frequently. The ceratum e lapide calaminari forms a very good dressing for this sore, when it is intended to leave it to follow its own course. As a stimulant, the unguentum resinorum, either alone, or mixed with red precipitate, is often used; but it seldom is of service, and often makes the sore irritable. If, however, the ulcer become very indolent, this, or the citrine ointment, properly diluted[103], may be of service. The same may be said of the other common stimulating applications. [103] This application forms a very useful remedy for the scrophulous ulceration of the eye-lids, which we so frequently meet with. Poultices made of bread and sea water have been recommended, but seem to possess little power of accelerating the cure. Solutions of alum, of blue vitriol, corrosive sublimate[104], of the nitrites of copper, bismuth, and silver, are sometimes useful to wash the sore with. [104] This substance is the basis of a celebrated lotion for the face, which is sometimes useful in chronic pustules, which are frequently of a scrophulous nature. It promotes suppuration, the pustule then scabs, and, when this falls off, the part is sometimes found sound below. It is made by dissolving corrosive sublimate in an emulsion of bitter almonds. The recent leaves of the wood sorrel bruised, and applied raw to the sore, is sometimes useful. The same may be said of cloths dipped in lemon juice, or vinegar and water. Saturnine ointment is much employed by some, for abating heat and pain; but is inferior to compresses dipped in cold water. Sometimes only the anterior part of a scrophulous tumor suppurates and ulcerates, and the deeper part of it remains swelled and hard. In this case, the bottom is generally covered with a slough, which comes slowly away piecemeal, and is renewed for some time, until the tumor subsides, partly by sloughing, partly by absorption, and partly by the subsidence of the remaining inflammatory action. In this case, sprinkling the surface lightly with precipitate, or blue vitriol, is of service; and this may be alternated with the common warm poultice. When the surface becomes cleaner, dry lint forms a very good dressing; and this may be covered with a pledget of linen spread with cerate. Afterwards pressure is useful. The irritable overacting sore, or what has been called the struma maligna, is very difficult to manage, especially as it is frequently connected with a diseased state of the bones or tendons below.