the wound for
some time with warm water, to make it bleed freely. The wound should
afterwards be rubbed with a stick of lunar caustic, or, what is better,
a solution of this--60 grains of lunar caustic dissolved in an ounce of
water--should be dropped into it. The band should be kept on the part
during the whole of the time that these means are being adopted. The
wound should afterwards be covered with lint dipped in cold water. The
best plan, however, to be adopted, if it can be managed, is the
following:--take a common wine-glass, and, holding it upside down, put a
lighted candle or a spirit-lamp into it for a minute or two. This will
take out the air. Then clap the glass suddenly over the bitten part, and
it will become attached, and hold on to the flesh. The glass being
nearly empty, the blood containing the poison will, in consequence, flow
into it from the wound of its own accord. This process should be
repeated three or four times, and the wound sucked, or washed with warm
water, before each application of the glass. As a matter of course, when
the glass is removed, all the blood should be washed out of it before it
is applied again.--_Constitutional Treatment_. There is mostly at first
great depression of strength in these cases, and it is therefore
requisite to give some stimulant; a glass of hot brandy-and-water, or
twenty drops of sal-volatile, is the best that can be given. When the
strength has returned, and if the patient has not already been sick, a
little mustard in hot water should be given, to make him so. If, on the
other hand, as is often the case, the vomiting is excessive, a large
mustard poultice should be placed over the stomach, and a grain of solid
opium swallowed in the form of a pill, for the purpose of stopping it.
Only one of these pills should be given by a non-professional person. In
all cases of bites from snakes, send for a surgeon as quickly as
possible, and act according to the above directions until he arrives. If
he is within any reasonable distance, content yourself by putting on the
band, sucking the wound, applying the glass, and, if necessary, giving a
little brandy-and-water.

2613. 3. _Bites of Dogs_.--For obvious reasons, these kinds of bites are
more frequently met with than those of snakes. _The treatment_ is the
same as that for snake-bites, more especially that of the bitten part.
The majority of writers on the subject are in favour of keeping the
wound open as long as po