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HEMORRHAGE—TREATMENT. 399

root of an inferior molar. The mouth and socket
being cleansed of blood and coagulum, it was perceived
that the hemorrhage was from a small artery at the
bottom of the socket, spouting out in jets with the
pulsations. The treatment consisted in rolling up
pledgets of cotton very tightly, saturating them with

creosote and tannin, and forcing them in on the bot-
tom of the socket, so as to make compression upon
the bleeding vessel. The socket was then filled up,
compression made, and the head bandaged in the
manner already described. Thus the hemorrhage
was immediately checked, and did not return. The
constitution of this patient was of a scorbutic dia-

thesis.
Excessive bleeding often does not occur till con-
siderable time after an operation ; and it may come
on without any exciting cause, or be induced by
vigorous muscular exercise, or by any intense mental
excitement. Everything of this kind should be
avoided, where there is a predisposition to hemor-
rhage, and everything invited, that would tend to
maintain the equilibrium of the circulation and the
utmost quiet.