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Observations on the means of preventing and relieving 

 the accidents and diseases^ to which farmers are parti- 

 cularly subject. By James Mease, M, D* 



Read May, June, July, August, 1825. 



I HAVE frequently had occasion to witness the suf- 

 ferings and even the loss of lives, which have taken place 

 among people in the country, owing to their being unac- 

 quainted with the dangers, to which, upon certain occa- 

 sions, they were exposed ; through their inattention to an 

 apparently trifling disease or wound ; or, to their neglect 

 in applying suitable remedies, in the early stage of a dis- 

 ease ; and have therefore thought, that I might render an 

 acceptable service to them, by calling their attention to 

 a few subjects, and by suggesting the means of preven- 

 tion and relief, which will be found effectual and easy of 

 application. My object is not to supercede the necessity 

 of a physician ; on the contrary, if a good one be within 

 reach, he ought to be employed, and at an early stage of 

 an accident or disease ; but it often happens that no one 

 may be near, or that no apprehension of present, or future 

 danger exists, when there are grounds for serious alarm. 

 In such cases, my advice will be opportune : it may also 

 happen, that medical men will derive useful hints from 

 the practice I shall recommend, as I should doubtless do, 

 by reading their own observations on the subjects upon 

 which I shall treat. 



Simple Incised Wounds.— -^oXhrng more is requisite, 

 when the cut is not extensive, than to bind up the part, and 

 to permit the balsamic blood to effect a union of the mus- 

 cular fibres. The common applications of brown paper. 



