The Water-cure journal, and herald of reforms, devoted to physiology, hydropathy and the laws of life . .former number of thesing from wounds andThere are also ableeding takes place,or severe accidents, andgeneral reader shouldunAer&ta,; -This becomes the more necessaryon account of the fact, that in hemorrhages gene-rally the most important time for treatment isthat which^occurs before a physician can be from leech bites becomes every now and thena serious affair, Fig. ing plan, in connection with that of cooling themass of the circulation generally, is, probabl
The Water-cure journal, and herald of reforms, devoted to physiology, hydropathy and the laws of life . .former number of thesing from wounds andThere are also ableeding takes place,or severe accidents, andgeneral reader shouldunAer&ta,; -This becomes the more necessaryon account of the fact, that in hemorrhages gene-rally the most important time for treatment isthat which^occurs before a physician can be from leech bites becomes every now and thena serious affair, Fig. ing plan, in connection with that of cooling themass of the circulation generally, is, probably,one of the best :* Take a small pinch from the felt of a beaveror other fur hat; pile it on the bite ; or if therebe several points, pile one respectively on each,and spread over the whole a piece of thin muslin,drawing it tightly, so that any blood which flowsmust pass directly through both ; then with a finesponge soak up the blood as it oozes out, andin a short time both felt and muslin will havebecome dried by the coagulation of the blood inthe thin, fine meshes, and the hemorrhage ar-rested. The muslin may then be all cut away ex-cept the adhering points, which in tlie couise ofa couple of days will of themselves drop off, leav-ing the parts healed, and free from any such dis-figuring marks as those which necessarily followthe cautery, caustics, or needles. Nose-blked—epistaxis, or hemorrhage from ithe nostrils, appears to be more frequent thanthat of any other part. It happens to
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