Every day expose the wound, wash it out, and dress it. If the patient is of strong physique and God smiles, he may not have septic fever. If, however, the limb shows signs of inflammation evidenced by swelling and redness, accompanied by fever, chills, and thirst, then must you perform some heroic tasks to save your patient's life. Remove all dressings and wrap in perfectly clean dressings the entire limb from the hip to the foot, elevate so that it will drain properly, and keep cold water running over it in a small stream constantly. This may be done by making a small hole in the side or the bottom of a bucket and hanging it in such a way that it will permit the stream to fall on the limb. If you follow the foregoing directions implicitly, you have done all that can be done. It will be understood that what I have said touches upon the subject of fractures in only a very general way. The methods of treatment outlined will apply to practically any fracture, and certainly to those most liable to be encountered in the woods. The four principal dislocations that are liable to engage your attention are those of the hip, knee, elbow, and shoulder. Of these, that of the hip is the most serious. Without going deeply into the classification of hip-joint dislocation, it will be sufficient to say that fortunately by far the greater number of these is where the head of the bone slips out of its socket upward and backward. Those in which the head of the bone occupies other positions with relation to its socket are much more difficult, in fact, for the layman practically impossible. The signs of a hip-joint dislocation are shortening of the limb, loss of motion, pain, and the turning of the toes in toward the opposite foot. You will be able to distinguish it from a fracture of the thigh by the absence of crepitation (which I have described as the slight grating sound made by the broken ends of the bone rubbing together), and the fact that in a fracture the toes are generally turned out. A friend of mine once reduced his own hip-joint dislocation in a manner that may prove instructive. He was coming down the steep side of a mountain in winter on skees. Halfway down the hill, while he was traveling at a great rate of speed, he ran into a depression, breaking his skee and dislocating his hip. It was many miles to the nearest cabin, night was coming on, and it was bitterly cold. Death stared him in the face. It was a time for the exercise of judgment if ever in his life. He crept down to a grove of small pines, selected two that were just a little farther apart than the length of his body, lashed the foot of the injured limb to one with his pack strap, lay at full length on the snow, and clasped the other with his arms. Pulling with all his might, he had the satisfaction of hearing the bone jolt back into its socket. The idea suggested will enable the reader to modify the method to suit each individual case.