To make BREAD POULTICES pour boiling water on slices of bread without crust, simmer a few minutes, then beat up the bread quickly and spread it upon a piece of muslin previously cut of the desired size, leaving about two inches of margin upon each side. Then put on the poultice some lard or oil or vaseline to keep it from getting dry and hard, and to make it less likely to stick. It will be well to put on it a cover of thin muslin or mosquito netting, or tulle, or illusion, and then fold over like a broad hem the edges of both the covers. The poultice should be evenly spread about a quarter of inch in thickness and may be carried to the patient on a small tray or board, and if you are changing the poultice you should also have a small basin to carry away the old ones. After applying the poultice cover with some impervious material (oiled muslin or rubber cloth) to keep in the heat. Such a poultice as this will keep warm for five or six hours, but it should not be allowed to become cold and hard. Milk should not be used in making poultices as it quickly sours. POULTICES ARE MADE OF VARIOUS MATERIALS. Flax seed meal, starch, powdered slippery elm, Indian meal, and oat meal are used. They should all be made of such a consistence that they will be tenacious as possible, and should have at least a little oil on them to prevent their getting dry. For PUTRID SORES some disinfectant solution may be used instead of water in making the poultice, such as a weak solution of chlorinated soda. YEAST POULTICES are used to hasten the separation of gangrenous sloughs. Mix six ounces of yeast with the same quantity of water at blood heat. Stir in fourteen ounces of wheat flour and let it stand near the fire until it rises. Apply while fermenting, or, “Take of wheat flour a pound, yeast half a pint, mix, and expose the mixture to a gentle heat until it begins to rise.” The following are old officinal forms for poultices: ALUM CATAPLASM. Take the whites of two eggs, of alum a drachm, shake them together so as to form a coagulum. (A common mode of preparing the alum poultices is to rub the whites of two eggs briskly in a saucer with a lump of alum till the liquid coagulates.) The curd produced by coagulated milk with alum is sometimes used as a substitute. The alum cataplasm is sometimes employed in incipient or chronic opthalmia as an astringent application. It is placed over the eye enveloped in folds of cambric or soft linen.