, carrots, and turnips. (_See par 809_.)

796. Domestic Surgery.

This will comprise such hints and advice as will enable any one to act
on an emergency, or in ordinary trivial accidents requiring simple
treatment: and also to distinguish between serious and simple
accidents, and the best means to adopt in all cases that are likely to
fall under a person's notice.

These hints will be of the utmost value to heads of families, to
emigrants, and to persons who are frequently called upon to attend the
sick. We strongly recommend the Parent, Emigrant, and Nurse, _to read
over these directions occasionally_,--to regard it as a duty to do so
at least three or four times a year, so as to be prepared for
emergencies whenever they may arise. When accidents occur, people are
too excited to acquire immediately a knowledge of what they should do;
and many lives have been lost for want of this knowledge.

Study, therefore, at moderate intervals, the _Domestic Surgery_,
_Treatment of Poisons_, _Rules for the Prevention of Accidents_, _How
to Escape from Fires_, _the Domestic Pharmacopoeia_, _&c._, which will
he found in various pages of _Enquire Within_.

And let it be impressed upon your mind that THE INDEX will enable you
to refer to _anything_ you may require IN A MOMENT. Don't trouble to
hunt through the pages; but when you wish to ENQUIRE WITHIN, remember
that the INDEX is the knocker, by which the door of knowledge may be
opened.

[TO-MORROW, CRIES TOO LATE TO BE FORGIVEN.]

797. Dressings.

These are substances usually applied to parts for the purpose of
soothing, promoting their reunion when divided, protecting them from
external injuries, absorbing discharges, protecting the surrounding
parts, insuring cleanliness, and as a means of applying various
medicines.

798. Certain Instruments

Certain Instruments are required for the application of dressings in
domestic surgery, viz.--scissors, a pair of tweezers or simple
forceps, a knife, needles and thread, a razor, a lancet, a piece of
lunar caustic in a quill, and a sponge.

799. Materials for dressings.

These consist of lint, scraped linen, carded cotton, tow, ointment
spread on calico, adhesive plaster, compresses, pads, bandages,
poultices, old rags of linen or calico, and water.

800. Rules.

The following rules should be attended to in applying