94 ‘ BOTANLC PHYSICIAN. 
Where intlammation has taken place, we depend chiefly uf 
general and local blood letting, carried as far as the strength of t 
patient will permit. Strong purgatives should be advised ; sude 
- fies are serviceable ; cooling and anodyne applications to the hea 
and when the patient is restless and distressed with violent 
opiates frequently prove useful. , 
_ When an inflamed state of the brain suecéeds to a contused 
wound of the%external teguments, warm emollient poultices are fl 
best applications we can make to the sore, By inducing a dischai 
of matter from the neighborhood of the inflamed parts, they off 
prove highly serviceable ; and when the skin has not been divided — 
by the contusion, it should be laid open upon the first appearance of 
a tumor, without expecting or waiting for a complete suppuration, 
THE HARE LIP. ie 
ss ee Se a ae aera , bee | 
Children are often born with fissures in one of the lips, particts 
sae in the upper lip. This is termed a hare lip, from its resem 
lance to the lip of a hare. i gare 
This fissure or separation is generally confined to the lip itself Bt 
_ but it often extends back along the whole course of the palate and 
mto the throat. i-Z 
~ _ Every degree of the hare lip gives much deformity, and some 
; times prevents the child from sucking ; it always produces some 
impediment of speech; and when the division extends along the 
bones of the palate, the chewing and swallowing is incommoded? 
the food passing up the nose. When it.is in the under lip, the spit 
tle cannot be retained, sl; a : 
Scab 
* 
~ favourabl : fer 
_ The intention of the operation ia the hare lip is to cut off the sidesol 
; Sve apne to reduce the whole tg the state ofa recent wound, and 
Hen : : rand retain. them in contact till dey 
unite. In effecting this, bandages, adhesive plasters, ligatures, © 
are sometimes made use of; but th i hey 
‘ : ey are d a th 
‘it the ie ey are not certain, and when he — 
idered worse. To avoid all tainty ane 
: disa ppointment, therefore, we should make use of ei the a8 
: al here describe. & lh 
| , ‘ gt yegipe patient, if an adult, should 8 ‘ 
ant; if child, he will be mo 2 . * ~ Properly held by an ass 
og s sone. Maly: BS. e fir : : table, — 
and kept ina Proper posture by an a ee oe laid one =, 
eo 
‘Phe upper lip should sistant on each side, 
Re by dividing the Me onlay separated from the 
mits of the P being more. WE Ts 
steps being adjusted. the surest * 
tween the thumb and. 
sistant to do the sam 
tightly, he should with ‘ PAA Sas x ue a 
dec of the lip to the upper extremities of hn 
