1. Powdered alum and pipeclay, mixed with water to the consistence of cream. For broken knees it may be coloured with bole and lamp-black. - White.

2. Paste for Open Knee-Joint. Flour and stale beer, boiled to the consistence of paste, and coloured as above. To be spread thick all round the joint, and covered with a pledget of tow, and 1/2 sheet of brown paper; and the leg of a cotton stocking drawn over the whole. The stocking to be covered with the paste, and enveloped with 2 calico bandages regularly applied. - Tuener.