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CHAPTER IV. 



Wounds. 



1 HE first necessary operation in wounds i;* 

 to remove carefully all dirt or other extraneous 

 matter ; and if the wound be made with a clean 

 cutting instrument, and not complicated with 

 bruising or laceration, the divided parts are to 

 be neatly sewed together. Where it can be 

 done, a roller kept constantly moist with the 

 saturnine lotion, diluted with an equal quan- 

 tity of water, is to be applied, in order to as- 

 sist in retainhig the parts in their situation. 

 This roller is npt to be removed for several 

 days, that the divided parts may have time to 

 unite, and that the wound may heal by the first, 

 intention, as surgeons term it, unless consider- 

 able swelling and inflammation come on : it 

 then becomes necessary to remove^ tlie roller, 

 and apply fomentations. This kind of union, 

 however, can seldom be accomplished in 



