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such effectual applications as may prevent 

 the necessity of calling in extra assistance, 

 or running into any extremes of practice not 

 xcarranfed by reason or justified by ne- 

 cessity. 



■ Finding how very difficult it is to describe 

 the multiplicity of wounds that may pro- 

 bably occur, and the many changes to which 

 they are liable, I shall be studiously atten- 

 tive to inculcate such information and direc- 

 tions as will, I am induced to believe, ex- 

 culpate me from the accusation of treating 

 the subject worse than it deserves. 



In all wounds the dam>;er is greatest, or 

 the cure most difficult, where large bloodves- 

 sels are separated, the tendons injured, or the 

 xVCixX parts affected. The regular process of 

 nature constituting the cure of wounds, is 

 the suppression of blood, the subsequent di- 

 gestion, or discharo'e of matter, the incar- 

 nation or tilling up Avith flesh, and the cica- 

 trization or skinning over. To effect the 

 ^V^^, if the injury sustained has separated 

 anv blood vessel of sufficient magnitude to 

 produce a hirmorrhage or bleeding of conse- 



