This is done by pressure with the finger; but, if that fail, by applying caustic, or by running a moderate sized darning needle into the skin on one side of the bite, and bringing its point well out on the other side. The whole wound is thus lifted up, and a piece of silk or strong thread is then to be wound round and round the bite, under the two ends of the needle. This will raise it up like a small spot, and generally stops the bleeding very effectually. In four days cut the silk and draw out the needle carefully, and there the matter usually ends. But in the peculiar state of constitution which has been before noticed, sometimes even after the removal of the needle and thread, the bleeding will continue. Nothing then remains, but to touch the bottom of the wound with a bit of thin iron wire heated white hot, which never fails to stop the bleeding. Though this may seem a very horrible proceeding, it is not very painful if the iron be _white hot_, as it destroys sensation in an instant; but whether it give pain or not is a matter of no consequence, as it is the only _sure_ mode of saving the patient. BREAD-AND-WATER, OR EVAPORATING POULTICE. Scald out a basin, for you can never make a good poultice unless you have perfectly boiling water; then, having put some into the basin, throw in coarsely-crumbled bread, and cover it with a plate. When the bread has soaked up as much of the water as it will imbibe, drain off the remaining water, and there will be left a light pulp. Spread it a third of an inch thick on folded linen, and apply it when of the temperature of a warm bath. It may be said that this poultice will be very inconvenient if there be no lard in it, for it will soon get dry; but this is the very thing you want, and it can easily be moistened by dropping warm water on it, whilst a greasy poultice will be moist, but not wet. A poultice thus made is, to the surgeon, what well-made stock is to the cook, a foundation to be seasoned or medicined with laudanum or poppy-water, with carrot or horse-radish juice, or with decoctions of herbs, with which the patient or the doctor may be inclined to medicate it, instead of loading an already irritable and very sensitive part with a heap of hard poppy-shells, or scraped carrots, or horse-radish, called poppy, carrot, and horse-radish poultices, but which increase rather than allay the sufferer’s pains. When vegetables are used to medicate poultices, they should be bruised, put into a pot, covered with water, and simmered for about half an hour. The liquid is then to be strained off, and mixed with bread-and-water or linseed to the consistence of a poultice. BANDAGES.