Cache-Control: public, max-age=1024000 Buchan's Domestic Medicine : Anodyne Fomentation.

Anodyne Fomentation.

Take of white poppy-heads, two ounces; elder flowers, half an ounce; water, three pints. Boil till one pint is evaporated, and strain out the liquor.

This fomentation, as its title expresses, is used for relieving acute pain.

William Buchan
Domestic Medicine 2nd edition 1785