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![Afterwards the wound may be dreffed every day in the fame manner till it be quite heal. Thofe who are fond of falves or ointments, may, after the wound is become very fuperficial, drefsit, twice a-day,,with the yellow bafilicum ointment*; and if fungous, or what is called proud fie fh, fhould rife in the wound, it may be checked, by mixing with the ointment, a little burnt allum or red precipitate. When a wound is greatly inflamed, the moft proper application is a pultice of bread and milk, foftened with a little fweet oil or refli butter. 1 his mud be applied inftead of the plafter, and fhould be changed two or three times a-day. If the wound be large, and there is reafon to fear an inflammation, the patient muft be kept on a very low diet. He muft abftain from flefli, ftrong liquors, and every thing that is of a heating nature If he be of a fulJ habit_ 3nd „ ° J?ut blood from the wound, he muft be bled; and, if the fymptoms be urgent the operation may be repeated. But when the pauent has been greatly weakened by lofs of blood from the wound, it will be dangerous to bleed mg lan'nJre°Tabkcfilof” F 7“ “ prC«’arcd “ «>«<>»- *Jow refin' and't °7 T 7l,ft p!‘’ ^ ™*. ^ '.a:vj Burgundy pitch, of each one noun,] ■ a“ong w^Toi'l over ““flow fi^'after Zv 'T 7 PitC”' faintth' tnrr“tinE'](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21721890_0619.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
