150 WOUNDS. 



bufinefs (as in moft others) is, in a great degree, 

 adequate to her own work; and will, by the 

 very hcilfamic property of the blood, do more 

 in nine fuperficial cafes out of tm than a long 

 lift of ill 'formed unguents, reported to have 

 efteited the moft miraculous cures. In addi- 

 tion to this circumftance it muft be remem-. 

 bered, that a fpeedy cure depends upon bring- 

 ing the edges of the wound into early contad:, 

 which fliould (particularly if the cafe is alarm- 

 ing) be immediately performed, by taking up 

 the neceffary ftitches at proper diftances (ac- 

 cording to ciicumttances and difcretion) with 

 fuch needle as the cafe may require -, an opera- 

 tion fo very trifling, that it m^ay be moil; readily 

 executed by any perfon not at all proficient 

 in the pradtice, fhould an emergency render 

 fuch exertion unavoidably neceiTary. Taking 

 great care, in large woirnds, not to draw the 

 edges too clcfe to each other, and hazard the 

 breaking out of the ilitches, or bringing on an 

 inflammation by an accumulation of confined 

 matter, in not Icciving fufficient room for a 

 proper digefticn. But in general, v/here the 

 edges are expeditiouily feCured and brought 

 into tolerable contad, the wound is very little 

 trouble; the ibft parts unite favourably by the 



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