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fore with equal parts of burnt allum, and red precipitate";or wash with the sublimate water, and dress with dry linteven to the surface, and then roll over a compress of lin-net, as tight as can be borne; for a proper degree of pres-sure, with mild applications, will always oblige thesespongy excreffences to subside, but without bandage thestrongest will not so. well succeed.
All sinusses, or cavities, should be laid open as soon asdiscovered, after bandages have been ineffectually tried;but where the cavity penetrates deep into the muscles,and a counter opening is impracticable or hazardous ;where by a continuance, the integuments of the musclesare constantly dripping and melting down; in these cafesinjections may be used, and will frequently be attendedwith success. A decoction of colcothar boiled in forge-water, or solution of lapis medicamentosus in lime-water,with a fifth part of honey and tincture of myrrh, may befirst tried, injecting three or four ounces twice a day, orsome resin melted down with oil of turpentine may be usedfor this purpose; if these should not succeed, the follow-ing, which is of a sharp and caustic nature, as recom-mended on Mr. Gibson’s experience.
Take of Roman vitriol half an ounce, dissolve in apint of water, then decant and pour off gentlyinto a large quart bottle ; add half a pint of cam-phorated spirit of wine, the same quantity of thebest vinegar, and two ounces of Ægyptjacum.
This mixture is also very successfully applied to ul-cerated greasy heels, which it will both cleanse and dryup.
These sinusses, or cavities frequently degenerate intofistulæ, that is, grow pipey, having the inside thickened,and lined as it were with a horny callous substance. Inorder to their cure, they must be laid open, and the hardsubstance all cut away ; where this is impracticable, sca-rify them well, and trust to the precipitate medicineMade strong, rubbing now and then with caustic, but-ter of antimony, or equal parts of quicksilver and aqua-fortis.
When a rotten or foul bone is an attendant on an ulcer,the flelh is generally loose and flabby, the discharge oily,thin, and stinking, and the bone discovered to be carious,by its feeling rough to the probe passed through the fleshfor that purpose. In order to a cure, the bone must belaid bare, that the rotten part of it be removed ; for whichpurpose, destroy the loose flesh, and dress with dry lint;or the dossils may be pressed out of tincture of myrrh oreuphorbium : the throwing off the scale is generally awork of nature, which is effected in more or less time,and in proportion to the depth the bone is affected, tho’burning the foul bone is thought by some to hasten its se-paration.
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physic should be given, and repeated at proper intervalsand to correct and mend the blood and juices, the antimo"nial and alterative powders, with a decoction of guaiacumand lime-waters, are proper for that purpose. Bartht’sFarriery, page 253.
ULIGINOUS, an appellation given to a moist, mooriftand fenny soil.
U MBEL, the extremity of a stalk or branch of a plant,divided into several peduncles, or rays, beginning fromthe fame point, and opening in such a manner, as to forman inverted cone.
UMBELLIFEROUS Plants, th ose whose flowers areproduced in an umbel, on the top of the stalks, some-what resembling an umbrella. Of this kind are the fen-nel, parsley, parsnip, carrot, hemlock, &c.
UNDERWOOD, coppice, er any wood not account-ed timber. See the article Coppice.
VOOR, fallow land. See the article Fallow.
URE, the udder of a cow, sheep, &c.
URITII, etherings, or windings of hedges.
URRY, a sort of blue or black clay, lying near a<veinof coal.
URINE, a serous and saline matter separated fromthe blood of animals, and emitted by the canal of theurethra.
It is of excellent use as a manure, when deprived of H shot fiery particles by time, which will so alter its natureas to render it an extraordinary fertilizer of every kindof foil. Columella certifies that old urine is excellent forthe roots of trees. Mr. Hartlib commends the Dutch forpreserving the urine of cows as carefully as they do thedung, to enrich their lands; and instances a woman heknew near Canterbury, who saved in a pail all the urineshe could, and when the pail was full, sprinkled it on hermeadow, the grass of which looked yellow at first, but af-terwards grew surprisingly. Similar to this is what Mr.Bradley relates, as of his own knowledge. Human urinewas thrown into a little pit constantly every day, for threeor four years. Two years after, some earth was taken outof this pit, and mixed with twice as much other earth, tofill up a hollow place in a grafs walk. The turf whichwas laid upon this spot grew so largely and vigorously, be-sides being much greener than the rest, that, by the bestcomputation he could make, its grafs, in a month’s time,was above four times as much in quantity as that of anyother spot of the same size, though the whole walk wa*laid on very rich ground. The author of the English Im-prover is therefore very right in saying that human urineis of greater worth, and will fatten land more than isgenerally imagined by our farmers, whom he advises,to take all opportunities of preserving this, and everysort of urine, for their ground, as carefully as is done inHolland.
USTILAGO, the same with burnt grain. See thearticle Burnt-Grain.
UTENSIL, a domestic moveable of any kind.
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