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Remedy for a Sprain or Bruise

ing. For light cuts with a knife, or any Wormwood boiled in vinegar, and applied sharp instrument, the Riga balsam usually hot, with enough cloths wrapped around to stops the bleeding immediately. (Sec Lockkeep the sprain moist. This is an invaluable jaw.) remedy. 5501. Artificial Skin for Cuts, &c. 5495. Sprains of the Wrist and A small quantity of collodion applied with a Ankle. As soon as possible after the acci- brush to a cut or wound will produce a perbandage 1 or 2 yards long, fect artificial covering which is more elastic and 2 or 3 inches wide; wet it in cold water, than plaster, and sufficiently insoluble in cold and roll it smoothly and firmly around the in- water. jured part. Keep the limb at rest, exposed 5502. Traumaticine, or Water-proof to the air, and continually damp with cold Covering for Wounds. This article is water. The sooner after the accident the simply a solution of white and dry pure bandage is applied, the less pain and swelling unmanufactured gutta-percha in bisulphuret there will be; but if pain becomes excessive, of carbon. Dropped on a wound or raw surcare must be taken to slightly loosen the ban- face, it almost instantly forms a pliable, wadage. ter-proof, and air-tight defensive covering to the part, resembling, in appearance, gold-the proportion of 2 scruples of the salt to beater's skin. The fetid odor of the bisul- 8 ounces of water as a lotion or injection. phuret is lost in a few seconds. Chloroform, The most favorable method is to cover the which has an agreeable odor, may be used as wound with lint soaked with that substance, the solvent, but is very much more expensive than the bisulphuret of carbon.