Ulcers of many kinds will heal rapidly when treated with poultices; and when I use the word “rapidly,” I refer to comparative quickness of healing, as ascertained by measuring the chief diameters of the ulcerated surfaces; their progressive over-closing is thus very accurately checked from week to week. This refers more especially to ordinary ulcers, such as result from injuries. A boy now attends in my out-patient room who under this treatment is healing up a sore on the fore-arm, the remains of a bad crushing of the part. Sometimes this healing is hastened by dusting the ulcer twice daily with powder of oxide of zinc before the poultice is at such times applied. In Sitwell ward a woman is just well of a severe phagedænic sore involving the skin over and below the knee. Mr. Cumberbatch, the dresser of the case, kept the parts at rest by swinging the limb, and applied at first an ordinary linseed poultice, then warm water dressing (another form of poultice), and, to expedite the healing of a few remaining sores, some resin ointment. The cure has occupied twenty-six days, a very rapid progress considering the constitutional nature of the affection: no medicine was needed. I never could understand, seeing it is desirable to keep the parts immediately after an operation warm and quiet, why those objects should not be attained by the use of poultices; nothing I know of is more efficient to lessen the trouble caused by the starting of a limb after amputation, than the weight of and the resistance offered by a large poultice surrounding the stump. But their employment is in disfavour, first from the fear of their provoking recurrent bleeding, although this reckons for little if due care has been taken to have the wound thoroughly dry before closing it, and unless this care is taken there is little chance of its uniting by the first intention; secondly, by the prevailing notion that such union is prevented by the relaxing influence of this kind of dressing. Wishing to put this to the test of experience, the following cases, amongst others, were placed under treatment.