=Boils= prove that an impurity exists in the blood, and the general
health should be improved by means of careful diet and regular habits.
The bowels must be kept open and regular, and the food should be simple,
easily digested, and not heating.
Poultice the boil from the beginning with bread and linseed meal mixed
with a little glycerine or sweet oil. When fully to a head and ripened
the boil should be opened and the pus drained out. Then dress the wound
with some soothing ointment spread on soft linen.
=Carbuncles= are apt to be much more serious than ordinary boils, and
are very weakening to the system, in which they show a weakness already
to exist. They should be carefully poulticed and treated as above, but
the best advice is to call a good doctor and draw on his knowledge of
treatment at once.