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MISCELLANEOUS
VALUABLE
RECEIPTS.
165
No.
353.
To
stop
the
Bleeding,
Should
an}^
large
blood-vessel
be
cut,
and
dis-
charging
copiously,
it
will
be
right
to
stop
it,
by
some
lint
or
sponge,
with
moderate
compression,
or
bandaging,
at
the
same
time,
and
not
taking
it
off
for
2
or
3
days.
Should
the
pressure
fail
of
effect,
caustic
applications,
such
as
lunar-caustic,
or
even
the
actual
cautery,
the
point of a
thick
wire
sufficiently
heated,
may
be
tried
;
or,
if
a
surgeon
be
at
hand,
the
vessel
may
be
taken
up
by
a
crooked
needle,
with
waxed
thread,
and
then
tied.
No.
354.
Adhesive
Plaster
and
Sewing.
When
there
is
no
danger
of
excessive
bleeding,
and
a
mere
division
of
the
parts,
or
a
deep gash
or
cut,
it
will
be
right
to
adjust
the
parts,
and
keep
them
together
by
a
strip
of
any
common
adhesive
plaster;
or,
when
this
will
not
do
by
itself,
the
lips
of
the
wound,
especially
if
it
be
a
clean
cut,
maybe
closed
by
one
or
more
stitches
with
a
moderately
coarse
needle
and
thread,
which,
in
each
stitch,
may
be
tied,
and
the
ends
left
of
a
moderate
length,
so
that
they
can
be
afterwards
removed
when
the
parts
adhere.-
It
is
advisable
to
tie
the
threads,
because
sometimes
the
wounded
part
swells
so
much
that
it
is
difficult
to
get
them
cut
and
drawn
out
without
giving
pain
and
doing
some
mischief.