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measures are seldom thought of, and 

 generally at times when people are least 

 prepared to meet them. 1. In absence 

 of any remedies, the first best plan to 

 .adopt on being bitten by any of the 

 poisonous snakes is to do as recommended 

 above in Mad Dog Bites — viz., to wash 

 ■off the place immediately ; if possible, 

 get the mouth to the spot, and forcibly 

 suck out all the poison, first applying a 

 ligature above the wound as tightly as 

 can be borne. 2. A remedy promulgated 

 by the Smithsonian Institute is to take 

 30 grs. iodide potassium, 30 grs. iodine, 

 1 oz. water, to be applied externally to 

 the wound by saturating lint or batting — 

 the same to be kept moist with the anti- 

 dote until the cure be effected, which will 

 be in one hour, and sometimes instantly. 

 3. An Australian physician has tried and 

 recommends carbolic acid, diluted and 

 administered internally every few minutes 

 until recovery is certain. 4. Another 

 Australian physician, Professor Halford, 

 of Melbourne University, has discovered 

 that if a proper amount of dilute am- 

 monia be injected into the circulation of 

 a patient suffering from snake-bite, the 

 curative effect is usually sudden and start- 

 ling, so that, in many cases men have 

 thus been brought back, as it were, by 

 magic, from the very shadow of death. 



BLEEDING OF WOUNDS. See Cuts. 



BLEEDING AT THE NOSE.— 1. Roll 

 up a piece of paper, and press it under 

 the upper lip. 2. In obstinate cases blow 

 a little gum Arabic up the nostrils through 

 a quill, which will immediately stop the 

 discharge ; powdered alum is also good. 

 3. Pressure by the finger over the small 

 artery near the ala (wing) of the nose, on 

 the side where the blood is flowing, is 

 said to arrest the hemorrhage immedi- 

 ately. 



BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS.— A 

 New York physician has related a case in 

 which inhalation of very dry persulphate 

 of iron, reduced to a palpable powder, 

 entirely arrested bleeding from the lungs, 

 after all the usual remedies, lead, opium, 

 etc., had failed. A small quantity was 

 administered by drawing into the lungs 

 every hour during part of the night and 

 following day. 



BLEEDING FROM THE BOWELS.— 

 The most common cause of this, when 

 not a complication of some disease, is 



hemorrhoids or piles. Should serious 

 hemorrhage occur, rest and quiet, and 

 cold water poured slowly over the lower 

 portion of the belly, or cloths wet with 

 cold water, or better, with ice water 

 applied over the belly and thighs, and to 

 the lower end of the bowels, will ordin- 

 arily arrest it. In some cases it may be 

 necessary to use injections of cold water, 

 or even put small pieces of ice in the 

 rectum. 



BLEEDING FROM THE MOUTH.— 

 This is generally caused by some injury 

 to the cheeks, gums or tongue, but it 

 sometimes occurs without any direct cause 

 of this kind, and no small alarm may be 

 caused by mistaking it for bleeding from 

 the lungs. Except when an artery of 

 some size is injured, bleeding from the 

 mouth can generally be controlled by 

 gargling, and washing the mouth with 

 cold water, salt and water, or alum and 

 water, or some persulphate of iron may 

 be applied to the bleeding surface. 

 Sometimes obstinate or even alarming 

 bleeding may follow the pulling of a 

 tooth. The best remedy for this is to 

 plug the cavity with lint or cotton wet 

 with the solution of persulphate of iron, 

 and apply a compress which may be 

 kept in place by closing the teeth on it. 



BLEEDING FROM THE STOMACH— 

 Vomiting blood. — Hemorrhage from the 

 stomach is seldom so serious as to en- 

 danger life ; but as it may be a symptom 

 of some dangerous affection it is always 

 best to consult a physician concerning it. 

 In the meantime, as in all other varieties 

 of hemorrhage, perfect quiet should be 

 preserved. A little salt, or vinegar, or 

 lemon juice, should be taken at intervals, 

 in a small glass of fresh cool water, or 

 ice-water, as ice may be swallowed in 

 small pieces, and cloths wet with ice- 

 water, or pounded ice applied over the 

 stomach. 



BLEEDING FROM VARICOSE 

 VEINS. — Serious and even fatal hemor- 

 rhage may occur from the bursting of a 

 large varicose or " broken " vein. Should 

 such an accident occur, the bleeding may 

 be best controlled, until proper medical 

 aid can be procured, by a tight bandage, 

 or a " stick tourniquet," remembering that 

 the blood comes toward the heart in the 

 veins, and from it in the arteries. The 

 best thing to prevent the rupture of van- 



