TREATMENT OF WOUNDS, &C. 475 



to the quick; and the wound is then to be drefTed as 

 above : and there is no fear but nature will foon 

 afford a more durable and proper plafter. A 

 wound, hollowed out as above, may, in the firft 

 Inflance, appear an unfightly blemifh ; but, in 

 fubfequent years, nature will lay the coats of 

 wood, under the new formed bark, thicker at that 

 place ; and probably may in time fill it up equal 

 with the general furface of the tree. 



All fra&ures, by whatever means produced, 

 are to be managed as the circum (lances of the cafe 

 require. If a large branch be broken over at the 

 middle of its length, it mould be fawn clear off 

 clofe by the lateral which is neareft to the , bole 

 of the tree : But if there is no lateral, or branch, 

 capable to carry forward the growth, cut the 

 main or fractured branch in quite to the bole. 

 In both cafes, treat the wounds as above recom- 

 mended. 



In fmall wounds, however, there is not, in our 

 judgment, occafion for any application ; fuch be- 

 ing only required to prevent rotting on large 

 wounds, which are neceffarily long expofed to the 

 air before the bark cover them over. 



Interior rotting, arifing from the dampnefs of 

 the foil, cannot by the art of man be cured. It 

 might have been prevented by timeous draining. 

 Shakes, if curable, are fo with great difficulty. 

 Like the damp-rot, they might have been pre- 

 vented 



