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therefor bene more dapat. is the bruifed 
“part, and the. ioe copious the extravafation, the more affi- 
Sanat muft all thefe remedies be employed ; ‘but in lefs ex- 
tenfive contufions, the -external apalicatious may be fuffi- 
cient. 
However, the cold fomentations and. fpirituous gene 
muft not be applied without proper felection. A decoéti 
oe difcutient herbs in wine, or in a mixture of qual ae = 
wine and water, hacer Ms when. a and tendinou 
e pain and” ten ak, ee 
abraded, thefe faline. euplcneon: = aot anes fein = 
Sometimes the pain increafes, in {pite of hele: pele one 
‘to fuch a degree, that Saari: cataplafms an 
frictions become a le 
is may be repeated about three times, with 
intervals of 12 hones. 
The yellow or-blue fpots that remain after the cure-of 
contufions, may eafily be made-to difappear, by applying to 
them a mixture of bran, falt; and vinegar, boiled together till 
the’ bran has imbibed the fluids, 
When the quantity of extravafated blood is very large, 
or when it is Situated in a part where it cannot eafily be ab- 
forbed, or when it gives rife to fymptoms which demand 
fpeedy relief, it mutt be immediately evacuated by an-inci- 
fion, and the fore treated like a wound combined with, con- 
tufion. Tne fame seni mutt alfo be obferved, wheu the’ 
internal h Nemor thage b tod uced, 
proceeds from a large € veflel, continues, and requires to be 
topped by fome. particular applications 3 3 or when, befides 
the Ceca on. other lefions of the parts are alfo prefent, 
as, for e example, when the bone has been fhattered. Should 
there {till remain | lumps of coagulated blood behind, after 
the ule of the d 
by ae if is threaten to > produce Pea mifchief by 
their prefl ure 
_ Treves.. 
as N 
r bath~-ma peek yed with eel 
pis aiedtions Be fendi, fealy relief mutt be pre 
cured, and t e 
mon { 
nthe e glands, or internal parts-of the joint, have been 
injured, "the furgeon ought not to intermit the application 
ain 
practice. 
Tateradl contufions are attended, more or lefs, with dif-+ 
trefling and ferious fymiptoms. Ifthe head be violently con- 
tufed, there is danger left the brain fhould have fuffered at 
the fame time 3 or left'the cffufed blood, lying long upon the 
. cranium, fhould injure'the bone by its. preffure, if it be not 
{peedily abforbed. 
When the thorax has been violently contufed, the heart, | 
lungs, and large feeb in the cheil,’ are liable to 
partake of the injury; or a rib may be fra@ured, and may 
pierce the lungs, fo tae to peiicn alarming confequences, if 
not death itfelf, 
general a of the abdomen, or a blow received 
a may ere aps hurt the liver, ftomach, uterus, bowels, 
ture an important blood-veffel, and thus caufe 
the death of ae = by the internal bleeding, inflamma- 
tion, or fuppurat 
judicious sagen will therefore, in fuch ie cOl- 
fider what internal parts are Itkely to have fuftained an in 
jury, and Pils adapt his means to “the: “peculiar cieumianers 
which ari See Concussion, EEACaUeS and H z2mor- 
“RHAGE. 
ONT WIG, in Geography, a {mall town of France, in 
the department o ont Tonnerre, and chief place of a can-~ 
toa in-the diftri€t. of Deux Ponts, with 780 inhabitants. 
The canton ney is compofed of 16 communes, and mekons 
ALig = nie 
NT Y; a ‘Tall town of France," on rg river Seille, ia 
miens, which 
formerly gave the title of prince to the tres line of the 
hor Bourbon: é. It has only 759 inhabitants, but 
is the chief place’ of a — which, in 27 communes, and 
upon a territorial exten 220 kiliometres, reckons 9675 
perfons, von forms part of ae diltrict of Amiens; 34 leagues 
N. 
CONTZ, a {mall ash of France, in the department 
of Sarre, oa chief place.of a canton in the diftri@ of 
The nu he “of its inhabitants does not exceed 
351, and the whole canton has 31 commingss: anda popu- 
lation of 4972 individuals. 
NT ag 
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