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violet powder, and over this cotton wool and light bandage. 

 Do not remove the dressings for two or three days, after 

 which apply bread or linseed poultices, and when the surface 

 looks clean and free from loose skin, apply simple water 

 dressing covered with oil silk, or Turner's cerate, or zinc 

 ointment may be used. Burns of face are best treated by 

 anointing the parts with salad oil. 



FRACTURES. Send for surgical aid at once ; meantime 

 make patient lie down, place the limb in a straight position 

 apply splints made of split bamboo or thick millboard on 

 each side, retaining them in position by broad tapes or pieces 

 of bandage, not tightly tied, but sufficiently firm to keep the 

 limb at rest, and prevent the broken ends of the bone from 

 moving against each other. Place the limb on a pillow or 

 cushion, and if there is much pain or swelling apply cloths 

 soaked in lotion composed of equal parts of vinegar, arrack, 

 and cold water. 



BLEEDING or HEMORRHAGE may be arrested by 

 applying a compress or firm pad made of rag or dry lint over 

 the bleeding part, retaining it by adhesive plaster or a 

 moderately tight bandage, and leaving this undisturbed for 

 two or three days. When the bleeding is from the mouth or 

 nose or from large open surfaces, where pressure cannot be 

 employed, apply powdered alum or tannin, or tincture of 

 steel and ice, if procurable, and keep at perfect rest. 



POISONING. Clear out the stomach at once by giving 

 an emetic of one teaspoonful of common salt, and one tea- 

 spoonful of mustard in a tumblerful of warm water, or twenty 

 grains of sulphate of zinc in the same quantity of water. 

 Repeat this three times at intervals of ten minutes till free 

 vomiting is induced, assisting this, if necessary, by tickling 

 the throat with a feather. 



In cases of poisoning by arsenic, corrosive sublimate, sugar 

 of lead, copper, and most other mineral poisons, give raw 

 eggs and milk, or milk alone, after the above emetics have 

 cleared the stomach. 



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