536 LEWIS'S AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. 



After the application of the water, and the limb being at rest, 

 it will be well to bathe or rather gently rub the parts with some 

 kind of opodeldoc. Sweet-oil, goose-grease, laudanum, spirits of 

 camphor, hartshorn, brandy, alcohol, rum, whiskey, &c. &c. are 

 the bases of all the mixtures known under the term opodeldoc. 

 Any one or two of these substances, or all of them, may be em- 

 ployed. For the purpose of friction, the mixture should be stroig 

 enough to produce a smarting sensation and impart a certain de- 

 gree of redness to the skin when rubbed in. Brandy and salt is 

 a good application for this purpose, and can be obtained with con- 

 venience at almost any place. 



This done, the parts may be bathed or kept wet with a solution 

 of sugar-of-lead, made with equal parts of water and vinegar. If 

 the limb, in spite of all these precautions, should be painful and 

 continue to swell, it will ease it very much to apply a large poul- 

 tice of flaxseed, corn-meal, onions, &c. If it gets worse, send for 

 a doctor, if within a hundred miles, and he will order the joint to 

 be leeched and prescribe a dose of salts and magnesia. 



Perfect rest to the limb is of the greatest importance, and with- 

 out it no treatment will produce a cure. If the ankle is the affected 

 joint, the foot should be kept up on a pillow, and never put to the 

 ground till free of pain. A blow or bruise may be treated pretty 

 much in the same way. 



The following lotion for sprains and bruises we give as recom- 

 mended by an old English sportsman and soldier, General 

 Hanger. The reason why we give this old-fashioned recipe in 

 preference to any other of more modern date is that we adopted 

 it several years ago as a kind of family cure-all, for man and beast, 

 and found it to answer a most excellent purpose. 



R. Spirits of wine gviij ; 



Gum camphor 5j ; 



Spirits of turpentine j ; 



Spirit! of sal ammoniac. Jj ; 



Oil of origanum gss; 



Laudanum . 



