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escape. Wounds entering the belly or chest, should be 

 treated by placing a pad over the part to exclude the 

 air, and application used as for simple wounds. Keep 

 down pain by giving twenty drops of the tincture of 

 aconite root, three times a day, for two days only. Poi- 

 soned wounds will be found treated of under the article 

 bites of mad dog. (Which See.) 



Wourali. — A name given to a poison, which is pre- 

 pared by the Macousi Indians, of South America, and 

 used by them on the points of their arrows. This poi- 

 son has been advocated by some in the treatment of 

 locked-jaw, in the horse,- but in my hands nothing favor- 

 able can be said of it as a cure for this terrible disease. 

 The power of this poison is so great, that an ox, of one 

 thousand pounds weight, was pierced in each thigh with 

 an arrow, poisoned with it. The poison took effect in 

 four minutes, and in a few minutes more his head and 

 legs ceased to move, and in twenty minutes from the 

 time he was wounded, the ox was dead, and apparently 

 dying without pain. 



Yellows. — Discoloration of parts of the skin from liver 



disease. (See Liver.) 



Yellow Water. — (See Liver Diseases.) 

 Zoology. — The natural history of animals. 

 Zumins. — (See Ferments.) 



