Attention is at present attracted to various applications having for their object the better healing of wounds and sores of different kinds; but I should be sorry if, in the search after new, one at least of the ancient remedies should fall into disfavour. It has been asserted that poultices are often used to conceal defects of treatment, a kind of refuge in ignorance of any more advantageous applications, and that they often do positive harm by inciting profuse, and consequently exhausting, suppuration, and, no doubt, it is true they favour the tendency to suppuration which may exist in particular instances, and that they will increase a suppurating discharge when the latter is already established. Most remarkable results, however, follow the use of poultices in certain cases—of lupus, for example. A woman attends at my out-patient room with ordinary lupus which, when first seen, had eaten away the middle portion of the upper lip, and had encroached upon the septum of the nose. A bread poultice was applied day and night to the ulcerated surface, and she took iodide of potassium. The sore was soon and completely healed. After six months she returned with the disease worse than ever, but it quickly healed again under treatment, and would, I am sure, remain well if she were ordinarily watchful over it. As the iodide of potassium may have had some influence in this instance, its use was dispensed with in other cases. A woman was taken into Sitwell ward with extensive lupus of the nose. It was with difficulty we persuaded her to submit to such simple treatment as the application of bread poultices continuously to the sore; she craved for physic, which was denied her. Very quickly the sore healed, and she left well. It is needless to record other and similar cases which have been treated in this simple fashion with the same satisfactory results. Some months ago a man was sent to me from Woolwich with an ulcer on the outer angle of the orbit extending to the conjunctival surfaces of the lids; it was irregularly scabbed over. In my opinion, and in this I was confirmed by several of my colleagues, it was an example of so-called epithelial disease; at all events it had been an open and increasing sore for nearly five years, and before proceeding to remove it I agreed to try the effect of some local caustic. To clean the surface a bread poultice was applied, and it mended so much that this application was continued, when great part of the sore healed rapidly, and the remainder cicatrized after being touched with caustic zinc.