When the bleeding has been entirely controlled get out your surgical kit and throw a pair of the hemostatic forceps into the boiling water. After they are sterilized wash the wound free from blood with pure water. I will add in this connection that spring water in the mountains is practically sterile and can be used for washing wounds without any danger of infection. After the wound is clean have some one slightly loosen the tourniquet. As he does this watch sharply for the jet of blood that will locate the cut artery. As soon as you see it grasp it with the forceps, lock them, and leave them in place. The compression of the forceps while you are getting ready your other instruments will seal up the vessel so that when you remove them it will not bleed any more. Take two of your full curved needles, at least two inches long, and thread them with quite coarse silk, cut off a piece of your gauze and run the needles through it. Place the needles thus prepared, the needle holder, shears, and the other pair of hemostats in a vessel and boil. In the meantime make up a solution of the bichloride, using the antiseptic tablets for that purpose. Wash your hands well and rinse them in the bichloride solution. Clean out the wound, taking great care to remove all clots. With one of the threaded needles in the grasp of the needle holder begin at the upper angle of the wound, about half an inch from the end. Pass the needle down through the flesh one-fourth of an inch from the edge, carrying it well toward the bottom and making it enter the wound near the bottom and re-enter the flesh on the opposite side, pass up through and out an equal distance from the edge. Cut the thread off and lay the two ends out of your way, leaving, of course, sufficient to tie with when the time comes. Place your row of stitches half an inch apart all down the wound. When all the stitches are in place you may begin to tie. Take the two ends of the first stitch in your hands and lift up on them; this will bring the edges of the wound together. Tie the thread, turning the first knot under twice to prevent its slipping. After all the stitches have been tied take the handle of your scalpel or the forceps and raise the edges of the skin, which will have rolled in, until they meet each other. This is necessary, as where the skin is rolled in it will not heal readily and leaves an opening for the entrance of bacteria. Sponge off all the free blood and dust well with surgical powder. Place a pad of gauze that has been soaked in the bichloride solution over the wound, cover that with a wad of cotton and the cotton with a piece of oiled silk, bandage over all, and do not molest for at least three days.