THE MEDICAL VALUE OF WOOLLEN RAGS.
The following piece of information, culled from the Philadelphia Ledger , should prove valuable :— *• The smoke from burning woollen rags is said to have cured—among others—two cases of extremely dangerous wounds ; one made by a sewing machine needle, which broke in a woman’s finger after penetrating it The machine had to be taken to pieces before the needle could be extracted, and one of the needle fragments was found to have been bent almost double against the bone. Another case was from the bite of an angry cat, which tore the flesh from wrist to elbow. The danger of look jaw and the pain, which in both these cases was extreme, were entirely removed by holding tbs injured finger and arm over the smoke of woollens burned over the ctals. The voucher for this cure says : ' Let woollen rags be held sacred and always at baud Perhaps it might become as favorite a remedy for dog bite as caustic is. The wound does not heal immediately, but the pain is said to disappear at once, and not to return." Simple remedies are often the moat effective.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1348, 22 September 1886, Page 2
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191THE MEDICAL VALUE OF WOOLLEN RAGS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1348, 22 September 1886, Page 2
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