Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . r, rolls of silk, or muslin, sewed together at thesides, or formed into rolls and coated with gum ;or we may use the common punk, as found insticks in the tobacconists, cut into pieces aboutone inch long. The application of any of thesecylinders is very simple. Having chosen a spotwhere the subjacent parts of importance are notlikely to be injured by the extension of the inflam-mation, place upon it a piece of moistened cloth,with a hole in its centre large enough to receive MINOR SURGERY. 299 the moxa. This cloth is intended to
Minor surgery, or, Hints on the every-day duties of the surgeon . r, rolls of silk, or muslin, sewed together at thesides, or formed into rolls and coated with gum ;or we may use the common punk, as found insticks in the tobacconists, cut into pieces aboutone inch long. The application of any of thesecylinders is very simple. Having chosen a spotwhere the subjacent parts of importance are notlikely to be injured by the extension of the inflam-mation, place upon it a piece of moistened cloth,with a hole in its centre large enough to receive MINOR SURGERY. 299 the moxa. This cloth is intended to preserve thesurrounding parts from the sparks which some-times escape. Next see that the end of the moxais applied to the body flatly, so that it may fititself accurately to the surface, and moisten it witha little gum to make it adhere ; or else hold it firmlyon the part, by a pair of forceps, or a porte-moxaor metallic ring, as in the figure. Having nowlighted one end of the cylinder, keep up the com-bustion by the breath or a pair of bellows ; the Fig. latter is necessary where its smoke irritates thebronchia too much. In its burning, the patientfirst feels a gentle heat, which gradually increasesuntil, as the fire approaches the part, the pain for 300 MINOR SURGERY. the moment becomes excruciating, and destroysentirely the vitality of the part. The eschar thusformed is then treated like the eschar formed bythe caustic in the issue, and the subsequent treat-ment will be also similar, to what has been theresaid. VACCINATION. The introduction of the vaccine is to be accom-plished by a slight puncture with a thumb-lancetthrough the cutis only; or by removing the cutis bya blister, and rubbing it on the denuded surface;or by making four or sixFig. 188. incisions with a lancet through the cuticle, cross-ing these by other lines,and introducing the mat-ter under the angularpoints of skin thus made,and letting it dry before theclothes can rub it. Thelatter should be kept fro
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