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ill their stead the siime treatment we have 

 directed for extensive lacerated wounds. 



There is another kind of punctured wounds 

 which is hkety to occur in miUtary service ; 

 and in a charge of cavahy upon a line of in- 

 tantry, it is astonishing that so many should 

 escape the bayonet as we generally find do on 

 such occasions. Those are generally of con- 

 siderable depth, and often followed by profuse 

 bleeding. When the bayonet penetrates the 

 belly or chest, the wound is commonly fatal, 

 particularly if any of the large blood-vessels 

 within these cavities be wounded. 'When 

 merely the fleshy parts are wounded, there 

 will be little danger, particularly if there be 

 no considerable blood-vessel opened. The 

 treatment of these wounds is nearly the same 

 as we have already described, except that it 

 is more frequently necessary to enlarge the 

 orifice or mouth of 4.he wound ; and that there 

 is often occasion to perform a rather difficult 

 operation; namely, that of tying the artery 

 m order to stop the bleeding; for when a 

 large artery is wounded, the blood flows so 

 copiously as to require the most expeditious 

 iiCicans of suppression, It is difficult for a 



