Re: carbuncle-bread poultice

[Guest guest]

" heat up a little milk in a sauce pan and throw a piece of bread in, Take a

paper towel or cloth and pick up a piece of the warm milk soaked bread and hold

it against the boil. "

A bread poultice was standard practice in my house as a child. The bread was

soaked in hot water, not milk, and used even on wounds to draw away the pus etc.

It was kept on, bandaged on, and kept the wound soft while it was at its worst.

I think the bread was inside the bandage next to the skin so that if the bandage

was lifted off the bread just came with it. Not particularly pleasant, but as

far as I know it did a good job. I remember having to go to school with this on

my knee after falling on the steep gravel hill outside the school. I could

smell it all day! Whether it was a kind of natural penicillin or not, I don't

know.

Rowena

[Guest guest]

Thanks, that was interesting. I didn't know people left it on with a bandaid.

Jeanne

[Guest guest]

In this case, a cloth bandage. To hold a sizable poultice on firmly.

Rowena

Thanks, that was interesting. I didn't know people left it on with a bandaid.