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355&#93; wou bread and butter, have not only healed malignant bites of aninrials, but also cured large and fetid ul- cers, in an almost incredibly short space of time. If the shin-bone be wounded, no oil or unguent must be applied ; but the injured part should be dressed with a pad dipped in ar- quebusade or Goulard -water, or vinegar; either of which ought to be occasionally dropped on the li- nen, and this suffered to remain undisturbed, in order to exclude the air, and to prevent suppuration. If, nevertheless, inflammation be apprehended, the patient may use, internally, a julep, composed of one pint of water, in which two drams of nitre are previously dis- solved, and afterwards 8 oz. of the tin6lure of roses, 4 oz. of the syrup of pale roses, and 20 drops of vi- triolic acid, are successively added : of this mixture he may take two table- spoonfuls every second hour, or oftener; and its operation ought to be supported by cooling purga- tives, such as cream of tartar, or any neutral salts. — According to Faudiguiere, the honey-plaster above mentioned, or the tinder ob- tained from burnt paper, when ap- plied to a fresh wound, and allowed to remain on the part affected, till it spontaneously fall off, has often proved a very efficacious remedy. There are many instances on medical record, where small wounds of the veins, in consequence of un- Bkilful blood-letting, have been at- tended with fatal effe'<5ts : thus, if a tendon, or cutaneous nerve, be in- jured, or the orifice in vencse6tion be made too small, the whole arm or leg will become inflamed, and the swelling suddenly spread to the points of the fingers or toes. In these cases, the whole limb Won [355 blight to be speedily tied up with n proper bandage, and dressed with Goulard or arquebusade - water j andBRAMBiLLArecommendsemol- lient, anodyne, and antispasmodic remedies to be applied to the wound- ed part. — There are, however, in- stances, where the method before suggested would be insufficient to effe6t a cure. Foubert asserts, that an inflamed arm, in conse- quence of an injured nerve, by ve- neseftion, was successfully treated, " first with corroslv-^ (septic) ^p- ^plications to the part affefted, and afterwards with bread -poultices containing Goulard-water," on the suggestion of Alix. — The cele- brated Heister recommends a mixture of oil of turpentine and spirit of wine, to be applied to such. wounded nerves ; others advise warm spirituous liquors; andSnEif- WEN justly praises the efficacy of warm oil of turpentine, which is used by country people, in deep wounds inflided by a needle, or other pointed instrument, with a view to prevent suppuration : and he observes, that cooling and emol- lient external remedies are unavail- ing in those nervous casualties, consequent on blood-letting. Persons wounded by gun-poiv- der, especially in the face, should not attempt to extra6t such partjclcs of the powder as may have pene- trated through the skin ; becausd they are apt to break, and sitVk deeper into the muscular fibres : the only application necessary, op these occasions, is Goulard-water, or, more effetlually, the ointment composed of oil and lime-water, stated under the articje Burns. With respeft to gun-shot wounds f we shall only remark that, accord- ing to the experience of the ablest surgeons on- the Continent, sucH. A a 2 injiuie:|