464 SUPPLEMENT. 



tachment, I have known many fall victims, 

 where the inflammation has been by these 

 means promoted, ,and nature too much ex- 

 hausted to admit the least relief. 



THORN-WOUNDS. 



Notwithstanding the general explana- 

 tion of the different kinds of wounds, and 

 their distinct modes of treatment, so fully 

 enlar<^ed on, under proper heads in the 

 vStable Directory, there is a certain class 

 not particularly noticed, that from their se- 

 verity bear so great an affinity to cases of 

 punctured tendons, as to become (at the re- 

 quest of many respectable correspondents) 

 the immediate subject of animadversion. 



The inflammation, tension, pain, suppu- 

 ration, and wounds, frequently arising /rom 

 injuries sustained by thorns, nails, stubs, or 

 other pointed substances equally prejudicial, 

 are universally known to become not only 

 exceedingly troublesome, but often produc- 



