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WOUND-STONE LOTION, 



Which, according to the popular recipe, is made by reducing 

 to a fine powder 1^ lb. of green vitriol, 1 lb. of alum, 2 oz. 

 of verdigris, and 1 oz. of sal ammoniac ; and after mixing 

 these several powders, putting them into a glazed earthen 

 pipkin, measuring three pints, and melting them together so , 

 that the contents boil up two or three times, during which 

 they are to be kept stirred with a piece of wood. Afterwards 

 allow the mixture to cool, when it will become solid and 

 hard, and fit for use. A piece of the magnitude of a walnut 

 is to be dissolved in a quart of rain or pond water, and the 

 wound be, by means of bandages, kept wet with the lotion. 

 N.B. — The pipkin will have to be broken before the stone 

 can be got out. 



LACERATED AND CONTUSED WOUNDS. 



These are wounds in which the soft parts of the body, in- 

 stead of being cut, are torn asunder by violence; and they 

 are often, at the same time, considerably bruised. They do 

 not look so formidable as incised wounds, owing to the 

 hemorrhage and retraction of the divided parts being much 

 less, though they are in reality of a more dangerous cha- 

 racter. A horse is seldom lost (unless it happen through 

 hemorrhage) from an incised wound ; there are numerous - 

 instances, however, of death . having followed contused and 

 lacerated wounds.^ Lacerations of tendinous textures, and 

 bruises upon bones, are always to be regarded with fear ; 

 many such injuries have proved fatal which seemed to pre- 

 sent no cause for apprehension. Occasionally we meet with 

 contusions and lacerations of a terrific nature : the many 

 and various accidents of this description that occur in 



' I lost a fine horse some years ago, simply from its breaking loose, and falling 

 down with harness on, the trace-hook being against the point of the shoulder, 

 bruising and lacerating it so much (though not penetrating the joint), that the 

 limb took to swelling enormously, and the animal died from sympathetic fever. 



