After five days you may remove your stitches in this manner: Cut the stitch near the skin on one side, grasp the knot in the bite of the forceps and pull it out. Be careful not to try to pull the knot through the flesh, and do not leave any end on the part you do pull through the flesh, as it may carry infection down into the wound. It is a fact not generally known to the laity that a solution of common salt and water will take the place of blood when introduced into the system. Surgeons resort to this practice in performing all very bloody operations. Their method of hypodermoclysis could not be carried out in the camp, of course, but a very good substitute for it can be used. The lower bowel is very receptive of this solution, which by the way, is made by dissolving a teaspoonful of clean common salt in a pint of water. The solution, maintained at blood heat, is introduced into the lower bowel with a fountain syringe. Persons who have lost a great deal of blood, so much in fact that their pulse can hardly be felt at the wrist, will receive great benefit from this procedure. Use at least a gallon of the solution and do not permit it to flow too rapidly into the bowel. Certain cuts may be dressed without stitches. Proceed as before up to the point of putting in the stitches, then roll up two pieces of gauze as long as the cut and about the size of a lead pencil. Lay these on either side of the wound quite close to it. With adhesive tape half an inch wide and four inches long begin two inches on either side of the wound and carry across, bringing the edges of the wound together. Place these strips half an inch apart until the wound is brought into line. Dress as before, except that you will have to omit the moist gauze, dressing with the powder entirely. I want to add here that should you run out of sterilized gauze at any time you can make it from any soft cloth by boiling it for ten minutes in the bichloride solution and hanging in the air to dry. The pain attendant upon any surgical manipulation can be prevented by the hypodermic injection of a solution of cocaine. When you get your hypodermic have the instrument man show you how it works. He can show you much better than I can tell it. Insert the needle half an inch from the wound and inject a few drops of the solution into the skin. Proceed thus entirely around the wound and by the time you are through the wound will be perfectly painless. Before replacing the instrument in its case always dry it out and replace the small brass wire that you will find in the needle.