When a wound becomes red, painful and swollen, and there is pus in it, the best method of dressing it is to lay on small pieces of cloth dipped in a solution made by adding a small spoonful of boric acid to half a cupful of water. Re-wet the cloth with this solution so that it will be continually wet. All cloths placed on a wound should first be boiled in water. If a piece of oiled paper or oil-cloth, or a piece of clean banana leaf, is placed over the cloth wet with boric acid sol

ution, it will prevent the cloth from drying out quickly. If boric acid is not available, common salt or Epsom salt may be used instead.

 

If no doctor is available, give sulpha drugs, one four times a day. In case of severe infections in adults two tablets every four hours for a day or two may be administered; then reduce to one four times a day.