Making a sling with a couple of jackets upon a pole, we placed the dog carefully, within it, and carried him home.

By dressing the wound every day with margosse oil, and keeping the pad and bandage in the place, to my astonishment the dog recovered, and he is now as well as ever he was, with the exception of the loss of one eye, which was knocked out by the horn of an elk on another occasion.
The margosse oil that I have mentioned is a most valuable balsam for wounds, having a peculiar smell, which prevents the attacks of flies, who would otherwise blow the sore and occasion a nest of maggots in a few hours.

This oil is very healing, and soon creates a healthy appearance in a bad cut.

It is manufactured from the fruit of a plant in Ceylon, but I have never met with it in the possession of an English medical man.

The smell of this oil is very offensive, even worse than assafoetida, which it in some degree resembles.