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having recourfe to the remedy recommended 

 above, vou may often cure a fimple contufion 

 within twenty-four hours. 



If the contufion is large, and an abfcefs is 

 formed, it will be neceflary to promote fup- 

 puration as fpeedily as pofilble; and if the fo- 

 mentation mentioned is not fufficient to ripen 

 the part, you may have recourfe to a poultice, 

 if the contufion is feated in a part on which 

 you can eafily bind it. The poultice may be 

 put on in the night, and may be made of ale- 

 grounds or flak beer, with wheat-bran and 

 cow-dung. In general, however, the tumiour 

 will yield to the fomentation recommended 

 above. If it break, and a white thick pus runs 

 from the orifice, you mud prefs the matter 

 gently out with your hands, and clean the 

 wound thoroughly with a bit of foft fpunge. 

 In all wounds, great care fhould be taken to 

 prevent frefli blood from rifing; as the air 

 afFe6ls the part and retards the cure. Some 

 will content themfeives with fomenting a 

 bruife or contufion twice or thiice in the fpace 

 of twenty-four hours : but by fuch trifling you 

 will neither difpel it, no,r, if a dangerous one, 



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