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safely, from the toe ; not by cutting out a piece of the 

 sole at the toe of the frog — which sometimes causes a 

 wound difficult to heal, and followed by lestering and 

 even by canker — but cutting down with a fine drawing- 

 knife, called a searcher, at the union between the 

 crust and the sole at the very toe until the blood 

 flows, and, if necessary, encouraging its discharge by 

 dipping the foot in warm water. The mesh- work of 

 both arteries and veins will be here divided, and blood 

 is generally obtained in any quantity that may be 

 needed. The bleeding may be stopped with the 

 greatest ease, by placing a bit of tow in the little 

 gi'oove that has been cut, and tacking the shoe over 

 it.* — Touait. 



•A great iraprovement has lately been introduced In tti3 method of 

 arresting arterial hermorrliage. The operation is very simple, and, with 

 common care, successful. The instrument is a pair of artery forceps, with 

 rather sharper teeth than the common forceps, and the blades held close 

 by a slide. The vecsel is laid bare, detached from tho cell-alar substance 

 around it, and the artery then grasped by the forceps, the instrument 

 deviating a very little from the line of the L;rtery. Tlie vessel is now 

 divided close to the forceps, and behind them, and the forceps are twisted 

 four or five times round. The forceps are then loosened, and, generally 

 ■peaking, not more than a drop or two of blood will have been lost. This 

 meteod of arresting bleeding has been applied by several scientific and 

 benevolent men with almost constant success. It has been readily and 

 eflfectuaily practiced in docking, and patients have escaped much torture. 



