This affection occurs most frequently in protracted fevers, owing to the
patients having been long confined to bed. When, therefore, the part
begins to appear red, we make a circular piece of wool, of the proper
magnitude, and lay it below the part, and afterwards prepare a rose or
myrtle cerate, containing litharge or ceruse, and apply it. When there
is inflammation, we may use a cataplasm of bread, with nightshade, or
knot-grass, or plantain, or tender cabbage. But if the ulceration be
spreading, we are to use a cataplasm of dried lentils, along with the
inner rind of the pomegranate.
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