1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

166

No. 355. Bandages,

If the part will allow a roller or bandage to be used to keep the lips of it together, this may like- wise be employed ; for, by supporting the sides of the wound, it would lessen any pain which the stitches occasion. With this treatment the wound heals often in a short time, or in a few days, rarely exceeding 5 or 6, and sooner in the young and health}" than in the old and relaxed, and sooner in the quiet and motionless than in the restless and active. Should the wound be large, and inflammation, with the discharge of matter, likely to take place, it may still be proper, by gentle means, to bring the divided parts near to each other, and to retain them in their natural situation by means of a bandage. This should not be made too tight, but merely to support the part. In this way, and by avoiding stimulant applications, the wound will heal more readily than otherwise, and the chance of any blemish following will be diminished. Washes of brandy, and the like, "Friar's balsam," spirits of wine and camphor, turpentine, or any other irritating applications, are highly improper, and sometimes make a fresh clean wound (that would readily heal almost of itself) inflame and perhaps mortify, or become a bad sore. spirits,