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How To Make A Mustard Plaster

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
October
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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really know liow to mate i musutiu piaster ? Not one in a hundred, at the most perhaps, and yet mustard piasters are used ín evory family, and physicians prescribe their application, never telling anybody how to make them, for the simple reason that the doctors themselves do not know, as a rule. The ordlnary way isto mix the mustard with water," tempering it with a little tlour; but such a piaster as tbat is simply abominable. Before it is half done its work it begins to blister the patiënt, and loaves hiin flnally with a painful, flayed spot, after having produced far less effect in a bcneflcial way than was intended. Now, a mustard piaster should never make a blister at all. Ir a blister ia wauted, there are other piasters far better than mustard for the purpose. When you make a mustard piaster then, use uo water whatever, but mix the mustard with the white ot an egg, and the result will "draw" perfectly, but will not produce a blister evenupon tho skin of an infant, no matter how long it ia allowed to remain upon the part. For this we have the word of an old and eminent pbysician, as well as our own experience.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat