SECTION 58.
ELM.
Constipation. Take at night on going to bed or in the morning before breakfast, a heaping tablespoonful of powdered slippery elm bark in a convenient quantity of water; continue the daily dose, until the bowels become regular. Chronic cases may require several weeks' treatment.
Acidity of the Stomach. - Milk Curdles in the Stomach. Finely pulverized slippery elm bark, added to cow's milk, boiled or unboiled, will prevent it curdling in the stomach. A teaspoonful will serve for a pint of milk, but it may not be best to mix so much at one time.
Punctured Wounds. When you do not want a wound to close, insert into it a tent made of a smooth piece of slippery elm bark; it will not give pain to introduce it, and it expands gradually, thus enlarging the opening. The same may be used to keep open an incision an abscess or gathering, if desired.