Scarifications are to be made more or less deep, accordingly as necessity requires, beginning at the bottom, and carrying them on upward, to avoid being hinder'd by the Haemorrhage.
These natives retained all their front teeth and had no scarifications on their bodies, two most unfashionable peculiarities among the aborigines, and in which these differed from most others.
His treatment, therefore, is merely directed to the curing, in so far as is possible, the phlogistic symptoms, by scarificationsof the gum and by the use of astringent remedies.
To the former belong purgatives, bloodletting, scarifications of the labial and sublingual mucous membrane, leeches, the application of scarified cuppings under the chin.
In any case, the earliest cupping instruments were hollowed horns or gourds with a small hole at the top by which the cupper could suck out the blood from scarifications previously made by a knife.
On the Congo, scarificationsare made on the back for therapeutic reasons, and on the face as tribal marks.
Scarifications are sometimes used; when these are made merely into the sphacelated part, they can be productive of good only by allowing the escape of matter; when they extend more deeply, they are injurious.
An eschar is made by the caustic potass applied to the skin, or by rubbing the bichloride of mercury, or any other caustic, into scarifications made by the lancet: the slough separates, and pus is discharged.
In the treatment, superficial scarifications are of little avail.
We may remark, that under no circumstances were long and deep scarificationsmade on the trunk or members, in order to allow the liquid to penetrate the thickness of the tissues.
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