Excerpt from Cyclopedia of Valuable Receipts: A Treasure House of Useful Knowledge, for the Every-Day Wants of LifeMustard poultices. - Dry mustard, cold water, mix enough cold water with the mus tard to make it into a thick paste, when quite smooth, spread it upon a piece of thin Old linen, or cotton, sew it round so as to form a bag. Be careful not to make the poultice larger than required, hold it to the fire for a few minutes, so as not to chill your atient, time, from 15 to 30 minutes, have rea y a piece of clean soft cotton, or a piece of clean wadding, and when you take off the mustard poultice, put on the wadding or the cotton.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.