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When you do not see a wound until the skin is dried 

 and curled up, then pare the dried skin and flesh off, so 

 as to leave the surface as smooth as you can, otherwise 

 it will leave a scar or blemish when healed up. Subdue 

 the inflammation of the parts by cooling lotions, poul- 

 tices or fomentations, as the case may require. If the 

 wound is sufficient to cause general inflammation, subdue 

 it by low diet, bleeding and purging. Leave it now to 

 nature until matter appears, or apply the salve of which 

 there is a formula given under the head of Joint Lee. If 

 at any time proud flesh appears, or the wound looks 

 dead and blackish, touch it occasionallv with tincture of 

 aloes or gum myrrh, and syringe it with rum in which 

 loaf sugar and blue vitrei have been dissolved. This 

 will cleanse the wound and assist in healing it. "When 

 a wound looks red, and this bad flesh rises up, the scrap- 

 ings of an old powder horn may be laid on it a short 

 time to advantage, after which syringe with the above. 

 In hot weather, when the' animal runs out in the field, 

 and sometimes if confined, wounds often get fly-blown 

 and full of maggots. They should be covered with 

 spirits of turpentine and the juice of the poison elder 

 leaves and bark. After a wound is nearly or quite 

 healed, it should be dressed with sweet oil to assist in 

 restoring the hair. 



Where a vein or artery is severed in a wound, and it 

 is difficult to take it up on account of its location, or 

 for the want of skill to perform the operation, the foU 

 lowing articles will be found useful for the purpose of 

 stopping the blood: Alum, wheat flour, salt, the scrap- 

 ings from the inside of sole leather, and puff balls, by 



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