When syringe comes, remove dressing, and clean wound by
forcibly syringing carbolic solution directly into wound. Replace
dressing._

A small punctured wound should be squeezed in warm water to encourage
bleeding and, if pain and swelling ensue, absorbent cotton soaked in a
boric-acid solution (containing as much boric acid as the water will
dissolve) or in carbolic-acid solution (one teaspoonful of pure acid
to the pint of warm water) should be applied over the wound and
covered with oil silk or rubber or enamel cloth for a few days, or
until the soreness has subsided. The dressing should be wet with the
solution as often as it becomes dry. Punctures by nails, especially if
deep, should be washed out with a syringe, using one of the solutions
just mentioned. A medicine dropper, minus the rubber part, attached to
a fountain syringe, makes a good nozzle for this purpose. A moist
dressing, like the one described, should then be applied, and the limb
kept in perfect rest for a few days.

When a surgeon's services are available, however, self-treatment is
attended with too much danger, as a thorough opening up of such wounds
with proper cleansing and drainage will afford a better prospect of
early recovery, and avert the risk of serious inflammation and
lockjaw, which sometimes follow punctured wounds of the hands and
feet. Foreign bodies, as splinters, may be removed with tweezers or a
needle, being careful not to break the splinter in the attempt. If a
part remains in the flesh, or if the foreign body is a needle that
cannot be found or removed at once, the continuous application of a
hot flaxseed or other poultice will lead to the formation of "matter,"
with which the splinter or needle will often escape after a few days.
Splinters finding their way under the nail may be removed by scraping
the nail very thin over the splinter and splitting it with a sharp
knife down to the point where the end of the splinter can be grasped.

=BLEEDING IN FORM OF OOZING.=

_First Aid Rule 1.--Apply water as hot as hand can bear._

_Rule 2.--Elevate the part, and drench with carbolic solution (one
teaspoonful of carbolic acid to one pint of hot water)._

_Rule 3.--Bandage snugly while wet._

_Rule 4.--Keep patient warm with hot-water bottles._

=GENERAL OOZING= happens in the case of small wounds or from abraded
surfaces, and is caused by the breaking of numerous minute vessels
which are not large enough to require the treatm