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DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



around a quill or small piece of round twig placed on each lip of the 

 wound, termed quilled suture. Or, pins maybe passed through the 

 lips at suitable distances, and a little tow or thread twisted around 

 each, like the figure 8, as shown ; or the edges may be held to- 

 gether by strips of sticking-plaster. A good adhesive plaster can 

 be made by melting about two parts of Burgundy pitch to one of 

 tallow, and spreading while hot upon cloth ; cut in scrips oi proper 

 length and breadth, draw the edges of the skin together, and lay on 

 while hot ; the parts to be dressed with a weak solution of carbolic 

 acid, about in the proportion of one part to twenty or thirty parts 

 water. The writer has had excellent success by the use of calen- 

 dula, tincture of the garden flower called marigold. This should be 



Fro. 885. Fig. 886. 



diluted with about one fourth to one third of water; or any good 

 antiseptic may be used. 



The following for this purpose, obtained from one of the best 

 practitioners in the country, is included: — 



In wounds where the muscles are badly contused and lacerated, the following 

 'wash has taken the precedence above all other remedies, and by ■ far supercedes car- 

 bolic acid. It acts as an antiseptic, and prevents excessive granulation. Take 1 oz. 

 white vitriol or sulphate of lime, to 16 oz. water. Syringe the parts out well with 

 the lotion, after being well cleansed, twice a day. By taking 1 oz. of white vitriol 

 to 4 oz. of water, and penciled on the parts with a camel's-hair brush two or three 

 times a day, it will cut down the excessive granulations commonly called "proud 

 flesh." ' 



For a healing or digestive ointment, the following is unri- 

 valed :-— 



Palm-oil 2} lbs. 



Wd ...-...»' 2 lbs. 



Gum turpentine _ J lb. 



Bees-wax f : .' .Jib. 



Calamine ' '. .1 lb. 



