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ing this, which should make it sufficiently plain to be understood. 

 First by stitches; or, by approximating the edges by stitches 

 passed around a quill or small piece of round twig placed on each 

 lip of the wound, termed quilled suture. Or, pins may be passed 

 through the lips at suitable distances, and a little tow or thread 

 twisted around each, like the figure eight, as shown, or the edges 

 may be held together by strips of sticking-plaster. A good 

 adhesive plaster can be made by melting about two parts of bur- 

 ofundy pitch to one of tallow, and spreading while hot upon cloth ; 

 cut in strips of proper length and breadth, draw the edges of the 



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skin together, and lay on while hot; the parts to be dressed with 

 a weak solution of carbolic acid, about in the proportion of one 

 part to twenty or thirty parts water. The writer has had excel- 

 lent success by the use of calendula, tincture of the garden 

 flower called marigold, this should be diluted with about one- 

 fourth to one-third of water ; or any good antiseptic may be used. 

 The following for this purpose, obtained fi'om one of the best 

 practitioners in the country, is included : — 



" In wounds where the muscles are badlj- contused and lacer- 

 ated, the following wash has taken the precedence above all other 

 remedies, and by far supersedes carbolic acid. It acts as an anti- 

 septic, and prevents excessive granulation. Take 1 oz. white vitriol 

 or sulphate of lime, to 16 oz. water. Syringe the parts out well 

 with the lotion, after being well cleansed, twice a day. By taking 

 1 oz. of white vitrol to 4 oz. of water, and penciled on the parts 

 with a camel's-hair brush two or three times a day, it will cut doAvn 

 the excessive granulations commonly called "proud flesh." 



