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Astringents

Substances that men. constrict the animal fibre, and coagulate albuthey are called styptics. The principal vege- When employed to check bleeding, table astringents are catechu, kino, galls, and oak bark; the principal mineral astringents are sulphate of iron, nitrate of silver, chloride several times a day. Apply a poultice of linseed and slippery elm, with a little salt and wounded so that blood flows, that flow is