Useful knowledge: or a familiar account of the various productions of nature, mineral, vegetable, and animal, which are chiefly employed for the use of man / Illus. with numerous figures, and intended as a work both of instruction and reference. By the Rev. William Bingley.

William Bingley

Date:: 1825

Credit: Useful knowledge: or a familiar account of the various productions of nature, mineral, vegetable, and animal, which are chiefly employed for the use of man / Illus. with numerous figures, and intended as a work both of instruction and reference. By the Rev. William Bingley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$\ SPONGE. 255 from which, only two years before, it had been entirely cleared. It is principally imported into this country from the Levant. Sponge is sometimes used by surgeons for the dilat- ing of wounds; and, as it adheres strongly to the mouths of wounded vessels, it is occasionally applied as a styptic to prevent their bleeding. Sponge burnt in a close earthen or iron vessel, and then reduced to powder, is sometimes used as a medicine. oi inoift )>]>!9 1ot ''J biqet$