Show FIRST AIDS IN ACCIDENTS Harpers Weekly A country countr boy knows that the fine dust of the brown fungi he calls cals puff puffballs l Puffballs f balls bals will wi stop bleeding When he cuts himself he hunts for one of these If the cut is serious If I the cut is dee dee it I Is wise to bathe It i in warm water wate with wih carbolic acid In It i or a tablet of chloride of or mercury dissolved in the th water Carefully remove all al foreign matter mater In the washing washIng and then pinch pinchIng pinchIng pinching Ing the tb lips Ups of the cut together put on strips of adhesive plaster Be sure ure and leave leve little spaces for pus Jus to run rui rn out This running of pus is a natural process and is not net alarming unless persistent ent and the pus comes in un unreasonable unreasonable reasonable quantities s Sometimes the tha blood flows so rapidly that you cannot close the wound with plaster If wih I so 60 sotie o otie tie te a bandage tightly above the tho wound before you attend to the te wound itself This will stop the te flow fow of blood bl and aM nature having formed her clot you can cando cn ca cado do your part with wih plaster |