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of healing, it muft be redified by proper 

 internal medicines, before a good founda- 

 tion for healing can belaid by any external 

 applications whatever. 



The lips of the wound then being PrelTi ' 

 brought together by the needle or ban- wounds, 

 dage, it needs only to be covered with j!'^^ ^^^^- 

 rags dipped in brandy, or a pledget of ^ ' 

 tow fpread with the wound-ointment, in 

 p. 239. the diredions in the preceding 

 chapters being obferved, and the wound- 

 ed part kept as much as pofifible from 

 motion. 



Remember to drefs all wounds of the 9^^'-'''^'^* 

 joints, tendons, and membranous parts, ^'°"* 

 with terebinthinate medicines -, to which 

 may be added honey and tindlure of 

 myrrh ; and avoid all greafy applications 

 whatever: fomentations and poultices are 

 alfo generally here of great ufe ; the for- 

 mer thin and attenuate the impadled fluids, 

 greatly prom.ote a free perfpiration in the 

 limb, and facilitate the unloading the fur- 

 charge on the veflels, by quickening the 

 motion of the fluids •, while the latter, by 

 relaxing the vcfTels, abate their tenfion, 

 and relieve the obftrudion, by promoting 

 digeftion. 



Pundured 



