JHA REs LIP. 
ate danger of the wound being torn open again. Silver 
: n pins, made with tteel points, which can 
feevolole are the beit, as they cannot ruft, nor ay any 
rritate the-wound. Richter alfo {peaks rather 
Eau of feel needles plated with ave or gold. The 
ts of the pins ought to be fmall, an . Pin 
me round oso cannot be pubhed i ae the fielh without 
ieee fame may be faid of trian 
© pins are 
It i Sythe neceflary to apply one of them near the lower 
cane of the lip, otherwife the angles of the wound become 
f eparated, and a {mall slef is left behind. Whenthe hareslip 
reaches into the and the patient’s upper lip is rather 
long, three pins are ote ene of which m 
duced clofe to the noitril. The pins are aaaiene put in 
about three or four lines from the margin of the wound, an 
brought out again at the fame diftance on the oppofite “fide. 
When the fiflure is long and broad, feeming as if it were at- 
ke gals with a lofs of fubftance, Richter advifes us to intro- 
of the pins at a ameuetine greater diltance from the 
edge ia oA wound, fo as not to be apt to cut age oF the 
p by ration, a peas “tee which, in this kind of 
ais is Pbeas to be apprehended, efpecially his ae patient 
4s reftlefs and unmanageable, and = pina are not affitt 
with another means of unitin 
The pins sap be fo aplicda to pa through very near 
the inner furfac the n they are introduced 
ee the suid of the fisftance of the part, or juit un- 
der in, inner dges of the wound are brought into 
hac oe and there remains during ae eee -~ difseresd — 
face of the e Bp: + ele Ag which is 
me wr Bee Betfides, the bleeding free Saintes palit pollehoe's = 
che fifare fr eq ently not hen the furgeon neg- 
Nye bring the oppofite furfaces of the wo ly to- 
gether. In in the pins, the fides of the wound fhould 
that the pin goes to the proper deptb, fufficient] 
near the infide of the lp. Barca ngrwene 
the fae 
= of the widions ae brough t St with Shy pins, and , 
‘demands no no particu er ne- f 
rs ry . som 
treatment. 
to intro- 
ate, fo i as to 
ie dawned: 
are apt to 
<a ree ae 
at 
sails jullicictes © for ao union of the wound. ~ 
a children, 
and, as whol won te t 
Exp t 
ing fome etimes continues wes 
uire. 
Some the ‘for cons Aave ey sted the fan of cuttin of the 
= pt Pp § ia this 
whatever. <4 
} a good way out of the 
ee ree is liable to Ned his hands againtt | them, 
_ Shortt pins, with 
sper ja fo Bbne'l on which the lip 
lies, and confequently the lip itfelf, are not ft 
curved, it has been apprehended that the ftraight pins, ¥ he 
the tp into 4 
ceflary, t 
mp ae sick lies in the fubhanee 
f the lip, is fo fhort that it can produce ne alteration in the 
ha : es Pa j « $ 
fa turns in fuch a w way, the 
uated. a at and the curvature of the li 
fs it inwards, is much more de 
