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third or fourth day at farthest. It therefore is the 

 more necessary to be careful, that by perfect rest, 

 and the appropriation of good bandages, we secure 

 the wound from distortion. In this we may be as- 

 sisted by strips of sticking plaster, made with di- 

 achylon and pitch: but these strips should be 

 gaurded from touching the wound itself by means 

 of lint or tow first put over it. When, in addition 

 to laceration in a wound, there is a destruction of 

 substance, then the caution of washing will not ap- 

 ply, as it will be necessary to bathe with some 

 warming spirit, as, tincture of myrrh, tincture of 

 aloes, or friar's balsam, to assist in restoring the 

 lite of the part, and in preventing mortification. 

 Bleeding must be stopped by pressure and astring- 

 ents, as powdered alum: when it is very consider- 

 able, the vessel from which the blood comes must 

 be taken up. When great inflammation follows 

 wounds and bruises, counteract it by bleeding, a 

 cooling temperature, opening medicines, and con- 

 tinual fomentations to the part itself 



Mode of fciving a Ball. 

 Back the horse in his stall, and being elevated 

 on a stool, (not a bucket turned upside down,) gen- 

 tly draw the tongue a little out of the mouth, so 

 as to prevent its rising to resist the passage of the 

 hand; the tongue should however not be laid hold 

 of alone, but it should be held firmly by the fingers 

 of the lell hand against the jaw. The ball previ- 

 ously oiled, being taken into the right hand, which 

 shouFd be squeezed into as narrow a shape as pos- 

 sible, must be passed up close to the roof of the 

 mouth, and the ball placed on the root of the tongue, 

 when both hands being withdrawn, it will readily 

 Dass down. 



