APPENDIX. — PUNCTURED WOUNDS. 323 



are united. When puuctured vvouncls are so 

 situate, that the matter can freely escape, 

 there is much less difficulty in curing them, 

 than when they are in a situation of a different 

 kind ; or where the orifice, instead of being the 

 lowest, is the highest part of the wound. 

 This inconvenience, however, is sometimes 

 obviated by making a new opening, with a 

 knife or lancet, or by passing a seton through 

 the wound : but ih some situations this can- 

 not be done: nor can we in mimy cases 

 apply suffieient pressure to bring the sides 

 ■ together. Tiie wound can then be healed 

 only by the formation of new parts, by which. 

 the cavity is filled up; to effect which we 

 inject stimulating liquids, such as proof spirit,, 

 tincture of benzoin, or solution of blue vitriol, 

 taking care to keep the orifice open, that the 

 bjottom of the wound may be first healed. 

 The most formidable punctured wounds 

 o^cnerally happen while a horse is emploved 

 in huntuig, in leaping over gates or hedges: 

 he is then said to be staked. The deeper and 

 more lacerated these wounds are, the more 

 carefully should we avoid the irritating ap- 

 jiiications and tents of the farriers, adopting 



