3329. If a stick cannot be got, take a handkerchief, make a cord bandage of it, and tie a knot in the middle; the knot acts as a compress, and should be placed over the artery, while the two ends are to be tied around the thumb.
3330. Observe always to place the ligature between the wound and the heart.
3331. Putting your finger into a bleeding wound, and making pressure until a surgeon arrives, will generally stop violent bleeding.
3332. Bleeding from the nose, from whatever cause, may generally be stopped by putting a plug of lint into the nostrils.—See pp. [95-6].
3333. In dangerous accidents always send off for a surgeon immediately an accident occurs, but treat as directed until he arrives.