diet--gruel, arrowroot, and the
like; purge with the No. 1 pills and the No. 1 mixture. (The No. 1 pill:
Mix 5 grains of calomel and the same quantity of antimonial powder, with
a little bread-crumb, and make into two pills, which is the dose for an
adult. The No. 1 mixture: Dissolve an ounce of Epsom salts in half a
pint of senna tea. A quarter of the mixture is a dose.) If there are
feverish symptoms, give two tablespoonfuls of fever-mixture (see above)
every four hours. If possible, bring the two edges of the wound
together, _but do not strain the parts to do this_. If they cannot be
brought together, on account of a piece of flesh being taken clean out,
or the raggedness of their edges, put lint dipped in cold water over the
wound, and cover it with oiled silk. It will then fill up from the
bottom. If the wound, after being well washed, should still contain any
sand, or grit of any kind, or if it should get red and hot from
inflammation, a large warm bread poultice will be the best thing to
apply until it becomes quite clean, or the inflammation goes down. When
the wound is a very large one, the application of warm poppy
fomentations is better than that of the lint dipped in cold water. If
the redness and pain about the part, and the general feverish symptoms,
are great, from eight to twelve leeches are to be applied round the
wound, and a warm poppy fomentation or warm bread poultice applied after
they drop off.

2688. Class 3. _Punctured or penetrating wounds_.--These, for many
reasons, are the most serious of all kinds of wounds.--_Treatment_. The
same as that for lacerated wounds. Pus (matter) often forms at the
bottom of these wounds, which should, therefore, be kept open at the
top, by separating their edges every morning with a bodkin, and applying
a warm bread poultice immediately afterwards. They will then, in all
probability, heal up from the bottom, and any matter which may form will
find its own way out into the poultice. Sometimes, however, in spite of
all precautions, collections of matter (abscesses) will form at the
bottom or sides of the wound. Those are to be opened with a lancet, and
the matter thus let out. When matter is forming, the patient has cold
shiverings, throbbing pain in the part, and flushes on the face, which
come and go. A swelling of the part is also often seen. The matter in
the abscesses may be felt to move backwards and forwards, when pressure
is made from one side of the swelli