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be warm, efpecially in the Beginning. Fourthly^ It ought 

 not to be expofed to the Air. Fifthly^ When the Wound 

 penetrates downwards, and the Orifice happens to be too 

 narrow, it ought to be widen'd either by Incifion, or dila- 

 ted with a Bit of Sponge, or fome other porous Matter that 

 will fwell ; but this is only to be done where Bandage can- 

 not be apply'd. Sixthly^ The Probe is to be ufed as feldom 

 as polfible, neither ought there to be long Tents thruft into 

 any Wound ; for by thefe. Wounds that have no bad 

 Tendency naturally, often degenerate into Ulcers of the 

 worll Kind. Lafily, Greafy Ointments are for the moll 

 part to be rejected, as they are apt to caufe the Flefh to 

 grow too faft ; and when that happens, it mult be kept 

 dow n with good Bandage, or the Application of cauftick 

 Medicines ; but Bandage is of the greateft Importance in 

 the Cure of all Wounds, where there are not Circumftances 

 to forbid its Application. 



To Hop the Hemorrhage or Bleeding, the Tojiop Bleed- 

 beft way is, before the Horfe is over- much ^"S' 

 fpent, to make Revulfion, by opening a Vein on the Fore- 

 parts, if the Wound be backwards ; but if the Wound be 

 forwards, a Vein may be opened towards the Hind-parts : 

 But in external Wounds, where the Hemorrhage is large, 

 that is generally owing to the Seat and Difpolition of the 

 Wound, whereby fome large Branch of an Artery happens 

 to be cut ; but if the Artery, from whence the Blood 

 chiefly flows, be not very large, it mud then be fuperficial, 

 as about the Nofe, Temples, or the skinny Part of the 

 Legs, &c. where the Veflels are unguarded with Flefli ; 

 for albeit the Arteries in a deep Wound may pour forth 

 Plenty of Blood while the Wound is recent and new, and 

 that there is a free Paflage ; yet this occalions fo great a 

 Derivation towards the Wound, that even the Coats of all 

 the wounded Veflels become diilended and fwoUen, fo that 

 by their Preflure upon one another, their Orifices are fhut 

 up and fqueez'd clofely together ; and in this Cafe there is 

 feldom need of any iliptick Application to Hop the Bleeding, 



But when the wounded Artery happens to be very large, 

 or much expos'd,as has been taken notice of,fo that the Blood 

 flows too plentifully, it mull be fl:opt either by applying a 

 hot Iron, or fome cauterizing Adedicine, otherwife it mult 

 be tied by pafling a Needle under it, and then binding it 

 with a wax'd Thread; but neither Ligature nor adual Cau- 

 tery is lb certain as cauitick Medicines, becaufe an Efcar 

 made by the adual Cautery is apt to fall off to foon j and 



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