Part 36
This bandaging would appear to me to answer best when the skin surrounding
the bone is contused on its ridge near the middle, or if the bone
itself have sustained some injury, but not a great one, in such cases,
redundant callus forms in the nose, and the part becomes a little
too prominent; and yet, even in these cases, the bandaging need not
require much trouble, if, indeed, any bandage be applied at all; for
it is enough if one lay a waxed compress on the contusion, and then
apply the double-headed bandage, thus taking one turn with it. The
best application to such accidents is a small cataplasm of wheaten
flour, washed, and mixed up into a viscid mass. If the flour be made
from good wheat, and if it be glutinous, it should be used alone for
all such cases, but if it be not very glutinous, a little of the manna
of frankincense, well pulverized, is to be moistened with water, and
the flour is to be mixed up with it, or a very little gum may be mixed
in like manner.