WOUNDS. 71 



dangerous, as internal organs may have been 

 wounded, and it is better not to heal up the surface 

 wound. Gun-shot wounds are similar, and you can 

 do but little for them. Extract the ball or shot if 

 possible, and it will eventually heal of itself. When 

 the belly has been ripped up, arid the bowels pro- 

 trude, it should be washed with tepid water, and 

 examined carefully to see if it has been injured, and 

 then replaced and the wound closed. If the bowel 

 has been injured, and the animal can be used for 

 the table it had best be killed at once. 



When an artery has been wounded, the blood 

 spurts out in jets and is very red; when a vein is in- 

 jured the blood flows in an uniform stream, and is 

 darker colored. Arterial wounds are far more dan- 

 gerous, and the flow should be arrested promptly, 

 either by compression or tying the artery itself. The 

 application of THE MARVEL tends much to arrest the 

 flow of blood. It is one of the best styptics known. 



Very extensive wounds are soon followed by fever 

 and inflammation commencing with a chill and the 

 fever continuing several days. In some cases, after 

 suppuration, unhealthy granulations, in the form of 

 pale excrescences, arise from the bottom, which 

 show no disposition to heal. THE MARVEL OF HEAL- 

 ING should be applied a few times to such unhealthy 

 sores, until they assume a better color and appear- 

 ance. 



On stitching up a wound take the stitch from the 

 inside, half an inch from the edge of the lip, bring 



