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of a bottle of EUiman's Embrocation. It mixes freely with 

 water and should, for the above purpose, be diluted to the extent 

 of one half and applied with a soft sponge, when it forms a 

 suitable lotion or preliminary dressing as well as a styptic to 

 stop more or less bleeding. The next consideration is to get 

 the edges of a wound in apposition, in order that nature may 

 unite them in the most economical way. By this expression we 

 mean what the old school of surgeons still call first-intention, or 

 adhesive union. Many simple or incised wounds, as dis- 

 tinguished from torn, lacerated or punctured ones, will unite as 

 though stuck by glue, if promptly brought together and 

 rendered aseptic by the Embrocation properly diluted. Wounds 

 too large to unite without some mechanical means of retaining 

 the edges in apposition may be secured in a variety of ways. 

 {See HEMORRHAGE, page 160.) 



Probably for the cattle-man we may most recommend the 

 plan of pins, and figure-of-eight bandaging. Suitable pins 

 may be purchased, or made, by filing stout pins on three 

 sides to make a bayonet-shaped end or point. These should be 

 boldly pushed through the sound skin, taking plenty of hold to 

 avoid their tearing out. Tow or a strand or two of untwisted 

 string can then be wound round in the form of the figure 

 of eight. This method is the least likely to allow the wound to 

 gape open, it has the recommendation of permitting the amateur 

 to renew his bandage without having to introduce fresh sutures, 

 the swelling can be relieved without withdrawal of the pins, 

 and the whole apparatus be rendered free from germs by the 

 application of the dilute Embrocation all over the dressings, 

 in the proportion before recommended. 



Ragged or contused wounds tempt the amateur to cut off, 

 what appears to him superfluous skin or flesh, but the experienced 

 surgeon will save all the living material possible, only excising 

 the hopeless portion w^hen he is convinced that nature cannot 

 make use of it in repairing the breach. 



The same directions as to bringing the edges of a wound 

 together apply to this class also, but it is even more important 



