Prepare yourself, You know it's a must....

When I worked in a restaurant, I had an aching, aching finger.

One of the girls in the kitchen said, "put a poultice on".

I looked at her and said "eh?"

She went into the kitchen scrapped some hard soap into a piece of clean cloth, added some salt, and then some powdered wash suds. She bound it round my finger, and said "that will draw it, it will be fine tomorrow".

And it was.

For a week, Tooli has been aching about her toe. I said "we should try a poltice", and she looked at me warily. So we went to the Chemist and the chemist suggested "a poltice", and they sell them.... For Boils and Carbuncles

Who'd have thunk!