content_output-081_12 (Q6691)

Gunshot wounds in these early days were considered to be all but necessarily mortal, which may be accounted for by the unskilful surgery of the times. Some of the recipes for the cure of gunshot wounds were, however, much more likely to prove mortal than the wound itself. The following is one given, but the precise details are wanting:—Take of oil and wine equal parts, inject them into a living dog, well boil the animal; its flesh, together with the oil, wine, and other ingredients, form the application.