Cataplasma Dauci.—Carrot Poultice.

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Related entries: Carota.—Wild Carrot

SYNONYMS: Cataplasma carotae, Carrot cataplasm.

Preparation.—Take of garden carrots, scraped, 4 ounces, Indian meal (corn meal), 1 ounce, boiling water, a sufficient quantity to form a cataplasm of the proper consistence.

Action and Medical Uses.—This will be found a valuable application to indolent and gangrenous ulcers, and painful tumors.


King's American Dispensatory, 1898, was written by Harvey Wickes Felter, M.D., and John Uri Lloyd, Phr. M., Ph. D.