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water six parts, will act as a powerful styptic in arresting haemorrhage. 

 Pressure, we may mention, is more often employed when the wound has been 

 sustained on one of the limbs. When blood spurts from a wound in jets of 

 a bright red hue, an arter}^ is injured, and in order to stay the hccmorrhage, 

 it must be tied. When an artery is cut in two, blood, as a rule, does not 

 escape in jets, because the divided ends contract, in virtue of their elasticity, 

 and moreover they become retracted also, inasmuch as the vessel is in a 

 permanent state of tension or stretching. Our readers will thus see that it 

 is when an artery is partially divided, that haemorrhage is liable to be so 

 severe and continuous. Sometimes it will be very difficult to find the 

 bleeding artery, and in such cases the application of the red-hot iron may 

 arrest further haemorrhage. After docking, this method of closing the 

 divided arteries by searing is commonly adopted. In the next place, it is 

 advisable to sponge gently over the wound with tepid water, in this way 

 removing any dirt or blood clots, which may remain in the injured part. 



The steps now to be taken will vary much with the nature and extent of 

 the wound. If it be incised, our object will be to bring the several parts 

 together ; and this may be accomplished by sutures or bandages, or by 

 plasters in trivial cases. If the wound be very deep, it is customary not to 

 sew up the severed tissues for several hours, in order to allow time for the 

 escape of the liquid serum, which oozes from the injured parts. Strips of 

 plaster are especially adapted for bringing together the edges of a wound, 

 when of a very superficial nature. W^hen it is necessary to employ sutures, 

 we may use what is termed the interrupted, the twisted, or the continuous 

 method. 



The twisted sutures our readers will observe, on referring to the pictures 

 below, is made by inserting a curved pin through the lips of the v\ ound 

 brought together, and then maintaining its position there, by winding thread 

 between the two ends in the form of a figure 8. 



Twisted Suture. 



Sutures are not so much employed in veterinary as in human practice, 

 as it is difficult in many instances to maintain complete rest, when the 

 injury is seated in some parts of the animal. When the eyelid is torn, as it 

 often ^_is, or when the nostril is rent open, and in many injuries of a like kind, 

 it' is of course absolutely necessary to stitch up the severed tissues as early 



