154 WOUNDS. 



piquing themselves upon ?l family receipt ^ or 

 nostrum of antiquity, had rather prolong the 

 complaint for weeks or months, merely to 

 obtain the reputation of curing what^ in^ 

 trusted to nature, would have absolutely 

 cured itself. 



Should wounds happen from complicated 

 causes, where the adjacent or surrounding 

 parts have received additional injury (from a 

 fall or bruise), an inflammation and larger 

 discharge of matter may consequently ensue, 

 than from a simple wound where no sudden 

 pr violent impression upon the vessels or soft 

 parts has taken place : large wounds pro- 

 ceeding from any cause, where an evident 

 destruction and loi^s of parts has been occa-' 

 sioned, can only receive substantial cure from 

 the regeneration and incarnation : being a 

 work of nature, and to be effected only by 

 the co-operation of time, it must be waited 

 for with care and patience ; as it can origi- 

 nate in no other feature than granulations of 

 new flesh, which, with proper application, 

 will daily continue to increase till the wound 

 or cavity is entirely filled up : when the cica- 

 trix is soon formed, and the cure complete. 



