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well as fkin, to hold them together, and they fhould 

 not be too tight. Over this clofed wound a double 

 cloth, wet with a faturnine wafli, iliould be placed; 

 and if the wound is in a fituation likely to be influ- 

 enced by motion, a bandage muft be carried over 

 the whole. When matter appears, drefs with any 

 fimple ointment, and keep the furface from the air, 

 but do not bind it tightly up. 



When a wound is much torn, or bruifed, Hitches 

 are better avoided. In this cafe the part fliould be 

 well waihed with warm water, if it is fufpeded any 

 dirt, or other extraneous fubftance, is within. Warm 

 fomentations fliould then be made ufe of for the 

 firft day or two, repeated every four or five hours, 

 and then the part may be drefTed with yellow bafi- 

 licon; or it may be waflied (inftead of fomented) 

 with the following : 



Spirit of turpentine, half an ounce. 

 Tindure of myrrh, one ounce. 

 Opodeldoc, two ounces. 



When this complicated wound runs good matter, 

 drefs with common ointment, guarding it from the 

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