| Show CARB CABB carbuncles carbuncled UNCLES have of late years become fa far r more common than formerly at an earlier period they were rarely seen but now they are almost as prevalent as the ordinary boil boll from which however they totally differ in all their characteristics A boil boll is poultices iced drawn to a head I 1 discharges itself and disappears the carbuncle is slow in its formation and by icing it with boiled flaxseed which I 1 believe is the best an opening is made and a slight discharge of watery blood ensues but it is never drawn to a head and never discharges like a common boil boll all the icing that can be given does scarcely anything more than soften it and many of them would not disappear for months unless the sure remedy is resorted to lancing by a physician death is sometimes produced by the carbuncle when it is located on a vital spotsey spot tsay sayad sayat at back of the neck on the spinal colum nand sometimes they produce severe illness when it makes its lippe appearance arance as a small hard bard pimple it should be at once attacked and dispersed which can be done bil by cutting it open or an appl appi application iea lea of ar arnica nica some apply strong lye etc alamp indicating the growing of a n carbuncle is quite distinct from ordinary lumps of pimples from its particular hardness they are caused by various conditions of the system by a paucity as well as a superfluity of the blood I 1 B by an unhealthy state of the blood by bruises on fleshy parts of the body etc Do dietress doctress etress in german town telegram telegraph ph |
