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Treatment of fresh Wounds. 



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mouth of the wound once or twice a week, in or- 

 der to keep it open while the bottom part heals. 

 Wounds that require stitching must be sewn with 

 ?ijine thread of white kathtr, which is much bet- 

 ter than either silk or common thread ; the former 

 will not cut the flesh and skin as the latter does. 

 The stitclies should be two or three inches from 

 each other, and the needle bent in the shape of an 

 half moon. Many fine horses are entirely ruined 

 ty tenting the wound, or forcing in one piece of 

 burds after another (dipped in a little melted 

 hog's lard and turpentine), with a couple of canes, 

 or sticks. This injudicious application blocks 

 up the matter, and renders the wound foul, ulce- 

 rated, and callous, so that it often proves both 

 tedious and difficult to cure. When the swelling 

 and inflammation about the wound are very con- 

 siderable, and the colour of the fluid discharged 

 from the same is of a dark brown, we know that 

 a gangrene has taken place ; and if it becomes 

 black, flaccid, and insensible about the part, and 

 also loses heat before a suppuration takes place, 



