o. 2 pills (five grains of blue pill mixed with the same
quantity of compound extract of colocynth; make into two pills, the dose
for an adult). If the patient is feverish, give him two tablespoonfuls
of the fever-mixture three times a day. (The fever-mixture, we remind
our readers, is thus made: Mix a drachm of powdered nitre, 2 drachms of
carbonate of potash, 2 teaspoonfuls of antimonial wine, and a
tablespoonful of sweet spirits of nitre in half a pint of water.) A
person should be very careful of himself for a month or two after having
had a bad cut on the head. His bowels should be kept constantly open,
and all excitement and excess avoided. When a vein or artery is wounded,
the danger is, of course, much greater. Those accidents, therefore,
should always be attended to by a surgeon, if he can possibly be
procured. Before he arrives, however, or in case his assistance cannot
be obtained at all, the following treatment should be adopted:--Raise
the cut part, and press rags dipped in cold water firmly against it.
This will often be sufficient to stop the bleeding, if the divided
artery or vein is not dangerous. When an artery is divided, the blood is
of a bright red colour, and comes away in jets. In this case, and
supposing the leg or arm to be the cut part, a handkerchief is to be
tied tightly round the limb _above_ the cut; and, if possible, the two
bleeding ends of the artery should each be tied with a piece of silk. If
the bleeding is from a vein, the blood is much darker, and does not come
away in jets. In this case, the handkerchief is to be tied _below_ the
cut, and a pad of lint or linen pressed firmly against the divided ends
of the vein. Let every bad cut, especially where there is much bleeding,
and even although it may to all appearance have been stopped, be
attended to by a surgeon, if one can by any means be obtained.

2687. Class 2. _Lacerated or torn wounds_.--There is not so much
bleeding in these cases as in clean cuts, because the blood-vessels are
torn across in a zigzag manner, and not divided straight across. In
other respects, however, they are more serious than ordinary cuts, being
often followed by inflammation, mortification, fever, and in some cases
by locked-jaw. Foreign substances are also more likely to remain in
them.--_Treatment_. Stop the bleeding, if there is any, in the manner
directed for cuts; remove all substances that may be in the wound; keep
the patient quite quiet, and on low