Wounds of the Fingers, and How to Treat Them

Some of the minor casualties which come within the range of surgical practice require quick and ready help; such help, I mean, as ought to be within the capacity of every medical man, whatever may be his qualifications or the technical method of exercising his craft. As old as Ulysses is the song which celebrates the wise physician, " skilled our wounds to heal ;" and the conventional distinctions of our own day deserve a hearty ridicule if they prevent a Doctor of Medicine from relieving a distended