The household cyclopædia of practical receipts and daily wants . bove it to prevent the dressing stick-ing ; the whole covered over to protect from injury, and the part dressedin the same manner once a day tillthe cure is effected. (See also p. 143). Bruises and their Treat-ment.—The best application for abruise, be it large or small, is moistwarmth; therefore, a warm bread-and-water poultice in hot moist flan-nels should be put on, as they supplethe skin. If the bruise be verysevere, and in the neighbourhood of ajoint, it will be well to apply ten ora dozen leeches over the whole bruisedpart,
The household cyclopædia of practical receipts and daily wants . bove it to prevent the dressing stick-ing ; the whole covered over to protect from injury, and the part dressedin the same manner once a day tillthe cure is effected. (See also p. 143). Bruises and their Treat-ment.—The best application for abruise, be it large or small, is moistwarmth; therefore, a warm bread-and-water poultice in hot moist flan-nels should be put on, as they supplethe skin. If the bruise be verysevere, and in the neighbourhood of ajoint, it will be well to apply ten ora dozen leeches over the whole bruisedpart, and afterwards a poultice. Butleeches should not be put on young-children. If the bruised part be theknee or the ankle, walking shouldnot be attempted till it can be per-formed without pain. Inattention tothis point often lays the foundationfor serious mischief in these joints,especially in the case of scrofulouspersons. In all conditions of bruisesoccurring in children, whether swel-lings or abrasions, no remedy is soquick or certain of effecting a cure as. (See Directions for Escaping Jrom Iire, p. To face p. 173. ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES. 173 the pure extract of lead applied tothe part. (See also p» 143.) Burns and Scalds. Birns and Scalds being essen-tially the same in all particulars, anddiffering only in the manner of theirproduction, may be spoken of toge-ther. As a general rule, scalds areless severe than burns, because theheat of water, by which are mostlyproduced, is not, even when it is boil-ing, so intense as that of flame ; oil,hoAvever, and other liquids, whoseboiling-point is high, produce scaldsof a very severe nature. Burns andscalds have been divided into threeclasses. The first class comprisesthose where the burn is altogethersuperficial, and merely reddens theskin ; the second, where the injury isgreater,. and we get little bladderscontaining a fluid(called serum) dottedover the affected part; in the thirdclass we get,. in the case of burns, acharri
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