CONTUSED WOUNDS are not often attended with serious hemorrhage. If there is in the bruised part only slight subcutaneous laceration, nature may soon repair the injury. But if there is considerable contusion indicated by the ecchymosis where small blood vessels have been lacerated and the blood extravasated into celular tissue, causing the dark discolored spots and other evidences of severe injury, there will be subsequent inflammation, perhaps suppuration, demanding treatment. A proper mode of dressing at first is to bind on a compress saturated with a four per cent. solution of carbolic acid, and for the fever and inflammation one drop doses of ext. veratrum may be given. But in all cases where wounds are severe the services of a physician will be required. A PUNCTURED WOUND signifies one made with a sharp pointed instrument, the external opening being small compared to its depth. It is a good rule in these cases to leave a free vent for any discharge that may be set up. The danger in these cases is from serious injury to the deep seated parts, and from suppuration which may burrow and extend still deeper if there is not free exit for the pus. One mode of treating POISONED punctural wounds (serpent bites, &c.), which of course are peculiarly dangerous, is by applying cups over the wound. Any wound that suppurates much or sloughs causes a cavity to be filled up, and the process by which the wounds and sores heal is called granulation, and cicitrization. The wound is gradually filled up to the surrounding level by new tissue appearing in the form of small red granules bathed in pus. Healthy granulations on an exposed or flat surface rise nearly even with the surrounding skin, and often a little higher, but when they are much higher, and take on a growing action, they are what is called proud flesh. Their growth may be checked by the application of active astringents; nitrate of silver or burnt alum may be used, or adhesive straps may be applied. The skin with which it is covered when healed is formed from the surrounding skin, and the process which is called CICITRIZATION does not go on well except when the granulations are nearly level with the adjacent skin. The centre of a sore has power to form new skin when there is a particle of live skin there, and for this reason skin is sometimes grafted in.