Rule 2.—Remove poison from wound. Encourage bleeding by squeezing tissue about wound. Suck wound, if you have no cracks in lips, and spit out fluid. Pour hot carbolic solution into wound (a third of a teaspoonful of carbolic acid to a pint of hot water).
Rule 3.—Cauterize. Dip wooden meat skewer, or lead pencil, into pure nitric acid, and rub into wound. Or, use red-hot poker, or red-hot nail grasped by tongs or pincers, or red coal from fire.
Rule 4.—Do not kill the animal. If he is alive and well at the end of a week, he was not mad.
CHAPTER IX
Burns, Scalds, Frostbites, Etc.
Classes of Burns—Treatment—Burns Caused by Acids and Alkalies—First Aid Rules for Frostbites—Real Freezing—Ingrowing Toe Nail—Fainting—Suffocation—Fits.
BURNS AND SCALDS.—If slight, skin very red, unbroken.
First Aid Rule.—Cover with cloths wet in strong solution of baking soda in cold water. Dry gently, and spread with white of egg, thick.
If deeper, blisters, skin broken, thick swelling; there may be some bleeding.